So, I just spent the better part of my spare and stolen moments, for the last several days, glued to news, watching Hurricane Isaac steal upon the Gulf Coast and do his stormy thang. Nothing drives me battier than watching storms like that roll up on my favored part of the United terrain, when I’m…
Month: August 2012
Rambling Lazy Mind (aka Wandering Day-Off Brain, and The Royal Mystery Just Keeps Going)
Ah, there’s the rain. Finally. I woke up this morning with a very relaxed sense of calm, to a grey sky and 50-degree weather. Happy to wake up on my own volition, instead of to my alarm (although there are worse things to wake up to than Basin St. Blues or Billie Holliday), at a…
French Quarter Friday: It’s In the Details
One should never rush and hurry and zoom through the French Quarter. (Unless, of course, one is running exceedingly late for work or somesuch.) There is just too much to see, and that does not include just the Big Stuff like the St. Louis Cathedral or Jackson Square or the view of the river from…
Gasp! Date Night!
Holy wow, retail schedules have me a’runnin’! It is an interesting experience, after having a constant schedule for over a decade, to have my routine change week by week. I am not complaining, though. It wipes me out, but at least I never fall into a rut, to say the least. I get one day…