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Miss Mardi Gal's Guide to a Semi Civilized Carnival
I had a hard time getting into Mardi Gras this year. I usually go to a lot of parades, somewhere around 20 per year. This year I went to 12. This doesn’t count the one I was in or the marching krewes downtownish. (I am from Broadmoor/Uptown. Anything on the other side of Canal is downtown.) It may be that I am getting old but I am seriously ( Read more... ) -
more Mardi Gras
A few more Mardi Gras memories from this year ( Read more... ) -
Carnival 2023
For Lent this year I am trying to set aside some time each morning to write (or just to think.) This is the time usually spent scrolling through Facebook memories and comments and newsfeeds. I won’t necessarily post everything I write. Some things are worthy of being shared and some are just rambling thoughts. But I really need to spend more ( Read more... ) -
riding in a Mardi Gras parade
TL;DR Riding in a parade is pretty cool. I don’t know whether I recommend it but it’s pretty cool ( Read more... ) -
Veterans Day
Veterans Day got me thinking about veterans. I’m not ashamed of these thoughts but I know I can’t share them with most of the people I know because even my extremely liberal friend group may be appalled. The fact is I see no reason to celebrate Veterans Day. I do not say the Pledge of Allegiance, do not stand for the National Anthem, and have ( Read more... ) -
New Orleans moment
I arrived a few minutes early for an appointment today and was parked in front of St Stephen's Church on Napoleon listening to my iPod. A very dark skinned black man with grey hair rode up on a bicycle. He was wearing a long sleeved bright red button down shirt (crisply ironed), black pants, and a white cowboy hat. He paused in front of the ( Read more... ) -
dream
Had a very strange dream this morning. I dreamed that I was part of a disaster response team. There was a terrible plague in Chalmette, LA. It was a condition in which a person could not do anything without being served. (It had a name with the word "serve" in it.) So people could not eat because they needed to be served (fed). This was ( Read more... ) -
diet
This morning I was at 159 pounds.
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Isaiah
Reading a new dinosaur book to Isaiah at bedtime. The book said that dinosaurs lived on earth millions of years ago. Isaiah: "So dinosaurs lived when people lived?" Me: "No, dinosaurs lived before people." Isaiah: "But that's not what you read." We went back and forth for a while until I backed up a few sentences and he said "See! It says they ( Read more... ) -
Isaiah
Reading to Isaiah earlier: "And then the cat sang 'I'm eating in my school shoes. I;m eating in my school shoes." Isaiah: "Only he shouldn't sing while he is eating or he could choke." Next book was a Star Wars Lego comic book and on one page a bubble shows three people saying something at the same time. Isaiah: "Two of them should say 'jinx' ( Read more... )