Sara Roahen Goodbye

This is a bit overdue. Sarah left awhile ago, but I was too sad to post it sooner! She was the food writer for the Gambit and came back to New Orleans after the storm to focus on a book project, which had to end sometime. She now has joined her husband in Philly.

Sara and Sarah

Happy Sara, Katy and Hector

Katy R. surprised her with a going away second line band salute. They snuck in through my side yard and started playing for her. She was very pleased.

Good job, Katy!

I was so excited when they first arrived that I took a sloppy picture, but it shows her shock...

Scenes from the party:







Dancing shots:





Me dancing:

Miss you, Sara!

Ruthie Monday XXVIII

Ruthie went to a great dinner party Saturday night. Lots of crumbs on the floor.

Yay! Children's Masterpieces!

Dreamer, 1945

Some of my students finished Marc Chagall*-inspired pieces last night. They are really big and beautiful. Students looked at Chagall's artwork and created a piece inspired by his paintings. They used ink, watercolor and chalk pastels. The focus was on experimentation with media and color.

Are they wonderful?!

Artist aged 5

Artist aged 7

Artist aged 7

Artist aged 8

*The painting came from this website

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A Grey Gardens Halloween

Well, I forgot to get a picture -hell I forgot my camera, period (very worrying), but I DID go to Frenchman to Check out costumes.

I went as Little Edie, from the documentary, called Grey Gardens, about Jackie O's wacked out aunt and cousin, but only a few people got it.



NOTE: When you are walking through a crowd with a shirt wrapped around your head and nobody can see the pretty-splash-of-color-silk-nightgown you safety-pinned over your control-top hose, you get mistaken for a Muslim --which I found disturbing.

But it was worth it when people got it!

I posted a video on my blog for you all to introduce you to Edie, if you have not met her. Someone
made a nice little montage of scenes from the documentary set to a Madonna song.

Madonna is Hung Up on Grey Gardens

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Ruthie Monday XXVII

WARNING: Ruth-Anne is a "kisser".*






*photos of Miranda and Ruth-Anne taken by Billy Sothern. He also took some of the duster photos.

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Memorial T-Shirts III

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Anniversary-Memorial T-Shirts II*



I used a zoom lense, from far away. Some people always see a camera.

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Anniversary-Memoriam T-shirts

When people get shot or otherwise murdered in NOLA, it is a relatively new tradition (as in other places) to memorialize the dead on T-shirts. At the anniversary, there were TONS and TONS of people wearing these to commerate the death of those loved ones who died due to the storm or events that occured as a result of it.

Please look for them in future anniversary photos.

And FYI, if you click on the pictures, they get huge.

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Normalization

Ruthie Monday XXVI-Finally

We discovered a new toy for Ruth-Anne. The duster-thingy that we use to clean our fans... it makes her crazy. She cries and whines at the spot where we store it because she cannot get enough.

Ho-yeah! Crazed puppy!

Ruthie Monday XXVI

I cannot get the pictures to post!!!!!!

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double click this one for full Friday humor effect...