Friday, April 11, 2014

Now vs Then

Disappointment. It'll come crashing in with a triumphant thud, piercing the air with its siren. It's like having an unwanted houseguest on the first weekend of spring when all you want to do is drive around to look at all the gorgeous azaleas. Or if you live in a pre-war NYC apartment, it's the sound of the ancient furnace turning on at the sign of the first autumn frost – loud and rude. Either way, it's un-deterred in the way that it permeates your heart, your smile. 

Whether it's the waiting and waiting, the relentless waiting for that little miracle that you first dreamed about when imagining a life with Mr. Right. Or when you see that no matter all your efforts at being charming, the fire between you and him is just…all but diminished. And he no longer tells you all the joyful little things he used to tell you that made you completely combust with a new light, a happy dance and made every day an amazing hair day. Or he's too tired to explore all your places, when before – he was insatiable when it came to your body, your face, your laugh, your thoughts. 

And each new day, you look at him and wonder what he sees when he looks at you. The Southern spitfire with a dazzling smile that made his insides do somersaults or just the same girl with the same pajama pants he goes to bed with every night? It's a dance between you and him that became almost too easy. Complacent. Comforting. A warm cashmere sweater. When instead, you wanted the taste of a intoxicating sweet sancerre. And that's the current disappointment. 

Monday, May 30, 2011

Am I playing it too safe?


Monday, February 28, 2011

Girl Holding On

Just celebrated a pretty significant birthday...the first, true leap into womanhood. And it was zero crazy-show. Zero neurotic hysterics. I looked my age in the face and said "oh, you again? for real?"

But it seems that an expiration date now applies to all those innocent things I used to have so much fun doing. Like wearing cheap frilly shoes from Payless. Over-romanticizing school-girl crushes and falling crazy-in-like with cute Australian guys at the office. Saying "like" too much...or "dur." And reading quick, easy chick-lit books written for 20-something girls but with the language level for 6th graders.

Yes, all of those things require some re-thinking....But maybe next year...



Tuesday, January 25, 2011

january, a new decade

snow, some T.I., malaysian take-out, strawberries + salt.

can't seem to stop 2011 from happening...but at least, i can savor some of the tangible niceties that make it all seem sunny/hopeful.

because the first of the little ones was supposed to come this year - we agreed on this years and years ago. and now it's the year, but it can't be...

because i want it to still be all about snow, some T.I., malaysian take-out, strawberries + salt...and not about onesies. not about the most adorable coos in the middle-of-the-night that make me burst into a fit of giggles and make me somehow forget that i haven't slept in months...

not yet.


Sunday, April 25, 2010

Just started taking a 9-week black & white photography class in Union Square. Taught by a guy with the craziest dreadlocks who looks like he lives in hipster Williamsburg, but is actually from Connecticut. It's been all-consuming. I'm now viewing my life as a series of photographs...But the spontaneous photographs are so very few...And I'm finding that I'm constantly "tweaking" scenes of the Texan so that he's picture-perfect. Or trying to capture that starry-eyed look that he used to have when he sees me. That look that makes my breath hitch and catapults me into his lap every single time. I've looked and looked and shot close to a hundred shots, but this look isn't quite there any more. It's been replaced by something...



Monday, March 29, 2010


At 22 years old, recently graduated from college...I had a choice to make. Follow my fiercest, wildest dreams and move to New York City. Or choose love.

I chose New York. And me. I chose me.

And love came chasing after me all the way to New York from Houston. One thousand, seven hundred and ninety-three miles to be exact.

The Texan arrived in New York the same way I did. With a few suitcases. A smile. And a promise.


Tuesday, March 2, 2010


Riding a crowded B train into work this morning, I couldn't help but notice all the different New Yorkers around me. Everyone was minding their own business; either reading or listening to their ipods. Strangely, I felt a kinship with them. And thought, in what other city will I ever have the experience of riding alongside strangers in a subway, being exposed to the whole diverse lot of them, and feeling that we are all somehow connected? If I was any where else in the world, I'd perhaps be tailgating some lunatic, with pure road-rage and trying to beat morning traffic...

It's true. One of the main reasons I moved to New York is because I hate driving.

my love-hate relationship with New York continues...


Monday, February 15, 2010

home is where the heart is...


It's a brand new year.

My little sister just got married 9 days ago. My beloved Saints just won their first Superbowl. I just celebrated another birthday 3 days ago...

And Vietnamese New Year was yesterday.

I've refused to set goals for the past few years. But I've got to now...Because I can't live in in New York City anymore. Living here for the past six years made me realize that I will always be a Louisiana Girl.

Cajun Girl.

Girl from the Bayou.

Shame on me for thinking that I was better than Louisiana. For thinking that it will never give me what it is that I think will make me happy.

I've got to figure out how to make my way back home...