Archive for September, 2005
Patrick’s Very Bad Day
Yesterday was the second anniversary of that sad event Maryanne has named, “Patrick’s Very Bad Day”. Last year I was in Paris for this day, wandering around in a tres melodramatic haze, thinking to myself “Mais, il est mort. Mon frere. Il est mort.” Paris is, in general a good place to go when you […]
Posted: September 28th, 2005 under dead people, grief, family.
Comments: 5
Harvest Festival
Sorry I’ve been such a bad blogger lately — there are any number of things afoot here at LivingSmall as I attempt to make some big changes in my daily life. When it seems safe to go public, believe me, you all will be the first to know …
And so here’s a little photo of […]
Posted: September 18th, 2005 under gardening.
Comments: 3
Aaron Neville Made Me Cry
I spent the entire day sucked into Katrina coverage … full geek mode — CNN on the TV, and surfing the web for all I”m worth. The whole thing still makes me sick, and yes folks, the response to this crisis, the fact that we simply abandoned all these people, this is racism. On the […]
Posted: September 2nd, 2005 under politics.
Comments: 1
Is This What We’ve Become?
What has happened to our country? When did we become a nation who abandons our sick, our elderly, and our poor in the face of what everyone thought was, until the last minute, a Category 5 Hurricane? When did we become the kind of nation that tolerates that our elderly are dying and being left […]
Posted: September 1st, 2005 under politics.
Comments: 1