Xy went to a job screening today. It seems there are hundreds of teachers competing for 60 jobs in the newly chartered schools in the…
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Xy went to a job screening today. It seems there are hundreds of teachers competing for 60 jobs in the newly chartered schools in the…
I saw our Cuban neighbor, Jose, as we drove to our house this morning. Xy dropped me off and hurried on to a job screening…
Best news of the day: New Orleans is going to provide free citywide wireless internet service, first in the nation.
Been too busy and too preoccupied to post, so here’s a random grab-bag update. My apologies if this seems somewhat haphazard or disjointed. We continue…
A check arrived from our insurer via FedEx today in the amount of $3,000. It says, right on the check, that it’s “partial settlement of…
It’s been something like twelve weeks since I’ve slept in my own bed. Until tonight. Tonight we’re camping in our own home. No electricity. No…
As I’ve done more demolition on the lower floor of our home, I’ve discovered the termite damage is a bit more extensive than I’d thought.…
A fire broke out at the local A&P yesterday, and the store was still closed today. So I went to the Sav-A-Center on Tchoupitoulas to…
Lately I’ve been posting about my personal experiences post-Katrina. I haven’t written much about the “big picture.” But if you care about me and Xy…
Xy and I had a great breakfast at Slim Goodie’s. We were talking with an Irish grandma (with brogue!) and her daughter and baby granddaughter,…
We are home again. We got no electricity, half our house is in ruins, and we’re staying on a friend’s futon, but we’re home again.…
There were snow flurries when we departed Indiana this morning. Yikes. Looks like we’re getting out while the getting is good. We are renting a…
Just submitted this letter to the Herald-Times: My wife and I sought refuge in Bloomington some ten weeks ago when we evacuated New Orleans. The…
It started raining last night around sundown. Kept raining all night long and into the morning. It rained all day. Sometimes hard, sometimes hardly at…
This morning I had a delicious breakfast at the Runcible Spoon with Ron Osgood and Thom Gillespie. Afterwards, I blew a stop sign at 4th…
For over four years I’ve been attending monthly meetings of the Octavia Books Science Fiction Club. I was there at the first meeting in the…
Even as I type this, I’m having a beer and checking out PJ Christie onstage as he kicks off Musical Family Tree Fest: a whole…
After we evacuated from New Orleans, I did a short interview on WFHB. When I made my first trip back to New Orleans, the city…
Just talked to Roland Graybill, our flood adjuster. He assured me that he completed our claims last week. It’s just a matter of waiting for…