28 Quotes by Anne Gisleson

I'm in one of the few professions where one still encounters swaths of handwriting on a regular basis - education.

Everything to excess' was his motto, as he aggressively celebrated the holidays, overfilling Easter baskets and buying the biggest turkeys... Even if Catholicism didn't stick with me, celebratory ritual evidently did.

One of the most liberating things about aging... not focusing on the gaze anymore, you have more energy to focus on yourself.

The promise of remaining youthful through philosophy was appealing to me, as nearly every day I was helplessly discovering signs of the disappearance of my younger self.

As an adult, when you're with your siblings, part of you is always a child, attached to childhood patterns of behavior and associations. All the jokes and gestures, affections and resentments.

I guess men have always been built to disappoint.

The trap of growing up in New Orleans: you're often preoccupied with what's been lost while clinging to a grand, cobbled present.

In this town, the dead can take up a lot of real estate both physical and mental.

Neighbors communicating concern and sharing news through stoop sitting and "door" popping... Technology, while a huge boon to rebuilding, also ensured that you didn't have to get your hands dirty, or even physically interact with the community... A digital echo chamber is not a stoop. A stoop is a stoop is a stoop.