According to Google, no one links to Friends of New Orleans, and that seems kinda weird.
Pronounce the dot.
According to Google, no one links to Friends of New Orleans, and that seems kinda weird.
Eleven Months Post-Katrina on Vimeo Also on YouTube. This video seems a little disjointed to me, but hopefully you can connect the dots: We personally…
Today Xy and I hosted a baby shower for one of our new neighbors. She and most of the guests are Honduran. It might seem…
I haven’t seen our new neighbor Ashley since I talked to him a couple weeks ago. But I met another young African-American man living in…
On the one hand, it’s been good for me, not having internet at home since the flood. It’s been good for my tendonitis. Typing and…
I spent today catching up, running errands that fell between the cracks over the last two days. It’s amazing how many things we’re juggling, and…
I’ve been trying to get my head around what happened. The timeline looks like this: Xy and I started Officially Trying in early May. She…
Sometime around 2:30 or so this morning, I was awoken from my deep and blissful slumber by a cry from Xy. She was crumpled on…
This is the most utterly outrageous thing I’ve read in a while: FEMA does not allow the media to speak alone to residents in their…
I hope everyone who cares about New Orleans will join us for the Rising Tide Conference.
…it’s another. We thought our roof was properly patched up, but judging from water damage to the kitchen ceiling after recent storms — it’s not.
There was only one Q movie on my alphabetical list: Quest for Fire (1982). If I had time for research I suspect I’d discover some…
While we were attending a workshop on restoring windows at the Preservation Resource Center this morning, Xy went to the bathroom and discovered she was…
The eighth article about our renovation appeared in the Times-Picayune this morning.
Xy did a pregnancy test this morning, and it read positive. She say she doesn’t believe it. I think she’s just shocked into denial. I’m…
On August 23rd of last year, one week before Katrina, I started a letter to the CEO of Aetna (my insurer through my employer). I’m…
In the days following the failure of our flood control system, I was overwhelmed with a mix of emotions: rage, anxiety, despair, grief, determination, and…
Imagine walking into a party full of people you’ve never met, but whom you know more or less intimately because they’ve been pouring their hearts…
Somebody put banners up on the blighted grocery at Carrollton and Claiborne last night: Walgreens has held the lease on this property for seven years.…