Twitter has been abuzz about the latest NOLA craze: the mini kingcake. Genius, I know, right?!? First was Hubig’s to hit the scene last week. They admitted the first batch had “sliding icing” issues and needed clear packaging. So as they were revamping, La Dolce Nola hit the twittertube with the news of their [...]
There was so much to do today. Drop off library books, laundry; donate blood; make arrangements for spending the weekend at my friend’s fishing camp; buy wine glasses and cookbooks. It was a loose script of a day; the kind Sun and I like. As we drive into the French Quarter, the rain started to [...]
I wrote a post in early 2008 listing my top ten favorite NOLA reads. Since that time, I’ve read more NOLA books, some excellent, some forgettable. So I thought I’d update my list. But wait. There’s more. We want YOUR list too. What NOLA books inspire you? To make the playing field even, Yat Pundit divided [...]
Pulling up to the address on Tupelo Street, it was what I expected: a home. The museum is in a small building in the Lewis’ backyard. A woman was sitting on her front steps. And in the shadows of the trees sat Ronald Lewis on his front porch. Waiting for us. He instructed us to [...]
For those of us who returned after Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf coast, and to New Orleans, we frequently get questioned: Why did you return? How could you have returned? We evacuated to Little Rock on Sunday. Monday, my husband flew to Philadelphia for his job; he returned two weeks later. I spent much of [...]
New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don’t keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future does not exist. . . . As for money, New Orleanians like it well enough, but not so they’d bend their [...]
I finished Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” this afternoon. Then watched the season finale of HBO’s “Treme.” *Sigh* Maybe it is still too soon for me to return to Katrina memories—those feelings of utter hopelessness and gut-wrenching devastation. The knowledge of the fallibility of every level of our American government. [...]
Week Eight. Day 56. No end in sight. Yesterday, James Carville wrote an opinion in the Times Picayune. And there has been much discussion of so many of the English pensioners whose retirements are now tanking because of BP and how callous we here in the Gulf are to those Brits. And there’s all sorts [...]
When non-violence in speech, thought and action is established, one’s aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one’s presence. ~Yoga Sūtra II.35 of Patañjali. On the evening of September 11, 2001, I had a yoga class scheduled. Knowing yoga always cleared my mind, I decided not to skip it. It was a small [...]
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like. ~ Baron Thurlow of England (1731-1806). Have we learned nothing in 250 years? I put the likelihood of a BP executive going to jail over the Gulf Coast oil spill at 0%. Why? Well, for starters Obama has [...]