Life as Magic

If you could snap your fingers and be anywhere, would you do it?Life never ceases to mystify me.
The then and there...
The here and now...
Music to my ears.
Food for my soul.
Voila...

Baby takes...

Clare, Mae and Eva.
Becoming little people!

I wish I could snuggle all three of you.
At the same time.
Love, Auntie Molly

Cubicle-ife

A mere blip amongst a sea of cubicles and where I spend 32 of my weekly hours.
I mean, does that even seem RIGHT?

Fabric walls and fluorescent lights?
A drawer of shoes and a cardboard jambox?
Really?
Yes, really.

Dilli Dalli

Meet my new hero.
I will now hold what my mom recently told me about fairies and elves as nothing but factual...
Here's to beating humanity at his own game of leveling and stifling the one and only Mother Nature!!!

I can feel it...

I've been waiting for this moment...

I SHIT YOU NOT

These are real t-shirts.
Nice try.
But you are not winning.
End of story.

Mr. Dolan

This is my 68-year-old landlord.
After four years of no face-to-face communication, I'm finally to meet him on Sunday.
And so, for you, a sneak peak into his head which should then normalize those thoughts you are having that his sending a beach-bod shot is creepily coo-coo.
I save all of his email banter because to me it is true literary gold, minus all the grammatical errors.
To clear a few things up, I swear he rented to me because I'm Irish and he is beyond fascinated with the fact that Keith is Cajun (er, Cagen).
I'll let the man speak for himself:

"I went to the mountains of W.V. looking for John Denver country road mountain Mama take me home. the only music I did hear was environmental music like Turn Off Your Furnace And Turn On Your Man and Save Your Horse And Ride A Cowboy.
So I was as high as one can get in this part of the world and I did think I saw John Denver but when I got home I thought it must have been a cloud formation with glasses like Lucy in the sky with diamonds."

"I just got back from my travels to Western Maryland Hagerstown. I do not hallucinate as much out there as I do in W.V. although like you in New Orleans I could not find any fresh fruit! I do hear you can find all the fresh fruit you might want at the Minneapolis Airport."

"At my age it is time to hang up my hammer and look for something less strenuous and that is why I was thinking about writing and after I showed the outline for the book to my wife (a two time push cart nominee) she recommended I keep my day job so now I am thinking about starting up a band with my hammering experience I could be a drummer and Keith could be a flute player and you could play the fiddle I think we could get something going!"

"Not to boast but I can Tap Dance and I can Yodel but not at the same time!!!!!!!!!!! What do you think?"

"Before your pictures when I thought of apartment#8 the prior tenant always came to mind and she was like a female Rodney Dangerfield and that was the good part.
I am so happy you put a name on our cagen friend and the photo with you in front and Keith in the background would make a grate cover for your Romance Novel and we can call it Tracking Down My Man On Boback Mountain or something like that... you take him to the lower east side and that is when you find out that he has a thing for Rodney Dangerfield and guess what he runs into my old tenant that looks like Rodney Dangerfield and falls in love and they plan to take back the appartment from you! What do you think? It might go over big in the Red States if not I think it might sell in Korea!"

"Just waking up from my winter slumber by taking the Polar Bear Plunge last week and now thinking of St Pats Day in N.Y. Winter finds me in a stupor a state of flux, a state of indecision should I stay or should I go. the only way out for me is a day at the parade.
A day at the parade might be good for Keith we might be able to make an Irish man out of him? We might have to keep him away from the Irish Hot sauce he might turn out to be a brawler you know how some of the would-be Irishmen react to the old sauce. If he really got drunk we could always just push him into the parade it is like a conveyor belt for drunks they just line up and follow each other thinking they are going some place... If he makes it to the Bronx we might be in trouble. the Bronx is to an Irishman as the House Of The Rising Sun is to a Cagen no telling what might happen.
So as you know my name is Cornelius and in the old days they called me Con and some called me Connie and some called me a Lepreconnie because they thought I was flaky and I was and it helped me make connections to the Fairies and that is how I picked up the luck of the Irish and with Keith out of the way at the parade I might be able to hook you up with a real Leprechaun it might be your lucky day! Most Important thanks for fixing the toilet how Lucky is that!!!!!!!!!"

I mean, seriously, who comes up with this shit?
I'm never, ever moving.

A few things on politics...

Everything's coming up roses...

But do you feel fall in the air?
Gathering in the trees and the sky?
Do you feel it?
Foraging, billowing, settling in?
Food and friends and fond memories of fires in winter.
It makes my heart sing and my head swim with anticipation.

Yes indeed...

It does.

What do you think?

What do you think of a Mae in the sink?
Does she drink in the sink while she's sporting all pink?
All I know is, there are rumors.
There are rumors she is growing teeth and pulling herself up and crawling and babbling nonstop at a very high pitch.
AND ALL WITHOUT LITTLE OL' ME!

Guess who was spotted in the hood?

The name is Betts.
And if you are lucky enough to know her, she might just give you a piece of gum.

I, myself, am lucky enough to be her daughter...

Would you believe me if I told you that the above watermelon...

birthed this watermelon?

The circle of life...

Trouble the Water

Please go support this film.
If nothing else has yet convinced you that the current administration has disastrously failed this country, then this documentary is your proof, the defining moment where it is plain as day, obvious as the nose on your face.
The levee's in my brain re-broke and in rushed the outrage.
I bawled and clenched my teeth and ground my palms into my eyes, right there in the theatre.
And not just because Keith was born and raised in New Orleans but because this is now a devastatingly sad fact in our history and what should have been the black mark for many people holding government office.

A cup

Those are some itty bitty titties!