Against all odds, we recovered the following items:
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Against all odds, we recovered the following items:
It hit a low of 44ºF here in Bloomington yesterday. The high? 67º. Yes, it gets that cold in New Orleans. Colder even. For a…
I’ve posted a bunch of pictures from the trip Michael and I made to New Orleans a few days ago. I’ve put ’em all in…
Holy — Mayor Nagin announced that the whole city of New Orleans, except for the Lower 9, will be open by Wednesday, October 5! That’s…
Michael took a great picture of me standing next to all the soggy, nasty junk we pulled out of the flooded lower floor of my…
There’s a new report on nola.com from the City of New Orleans, breaking down the status of sections of the city by ZIP code. My…
As we head north on I-55, I’m thinking of all the stuff I still need to do with my house in New Orleans: Need to…
We got back into Mid-City again today and spent the morning cleaning up my house. Michael doesn’t want to clean up his house before the…
Almost forgot — Today is the twelfth anniversary of my marriage to Xy. Happy Silk, baby!
I am exhausted — mentally, emotionally, physically. Michael and I got to our homes. We took pictures and tried to assess the damage and retrieved…
I am in Mid-City as I write this. We took the Crescent City Connection from Algiers about 7:30 this morning. We got across the river…
We made it into Orleans Parish without any challenge by the authorities. We are now comfortably ensconced at Howie’s house in Algiers. We delivered our…
We decided to go further than Jackson MS. We have taken refuge in Mandeville LA, at the home of Xavier prof Jonathan Rotondo-McCord. Mandeville is…
Michael and I left Bloomington just before 6AM. Got a press pass from WFHB and a video camera from CATS and a van packed to…
The Mid-City neighborhood in New Orleans remains offically closed, but people are getting in every day and posting reports and pictures to blogs and message…
I miss my neighbors. Most of them I knew on a first-name basis only: Richard and Crystal and Donika and Willanita and Danielle and Geraldine…
Just read an article gives me hope that maybe our home is salvageable. Figures liberally quoted in the national press would suggest that much of…
A friend and co-worker sent this via e-mail. Hope she doesn’t mind me posting it here. I journeyed into Algiers this weekend to work on…
About a week before Katrina hit, I turned on WWOZ and heard some super heavy jazz organ. I thought it was pretty cool, and paid…
Johnny McKay died a couple of weeks ago. He was 32. I didn’t know him that well, but we had some mutual friends, and Xy…