I’ve been keeping a journal long before I started this blog. I started in 1977 when I was a mere whelp, and I’ve been writing…
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I’ve been keeping a journal long before I started this blog. I started in 1977 when I was a mere whelp, and I’ve been writing…
I wrote a letter to the owner. I talked to him too. I made a video about it. I wrote an editorial about it. I…
Once again Mr. Magic writes with news of life in my former hometown: I thought you might enjoy these pictures of the recent flooding in…
Xy and I were getting lunch at Minnie’s Catfish Corner (highly recommended) when we heard the news about the hurricane in Myanmar. Apparently the geography…
I notice I haven’t been writing about issues in the recovery of New Orleans nearly as much lately. That’s because my primary mission here is…
Doesn’t it seem ridiculous that our collective mood should rise and fall based on what this guy says in his speech? Tonight, the armies of…
This story in the paper made me feel ever-so-slightly vindicated about our decision to renovate. A new study of home prices around the New Orleans…
How can this occur a full five months after this? (Thanks, BSJD)
Xy and I had our initial appointment with the Road Home program this morning. Yes, that’s right, initial. We’re only just now getting started. For…
We had about 16 trick-or-treaters pass by our home in Mid-City tonight, up from ten last year and zero the year before that.
I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on “Media, Communication and Community: Private and Public Interests in Rebuilding New Orleans” this Wednesday night. It’s sponsored…
One of the most interesting things I got out of the Green Party of Louisiana convention on Saturday was a press release distributed by the…
While our public officials were ringing bells and laying wreaths yesterday, hundreds of people were marching in San Jose. They were commemorating Katrina just like…
So where are we in the recovery of New Orleans, two years after the great disaster? It’s been slow going, that’s for sure. I expected…
Just scouring back through old files, I found this e-mail sent from a friend in Florida on the Saturday evening before Katrina. To read it…
Back in September of 2005, I wondered if Katrina would become an campaign issue in 2008. Now pollster John Zogby says it just might: 73…
Imagine picking up a newspaper and scanning through all the stories on the front page and finding no reference whatsoever to Katrina, no reference to…
I got a note from a good friend last week that really threw me for a loop. He basically called me out for being a…
A friend of mine from Indiana recently wrote the following in an online discussion: I don’t want to argue the point as I don’t have…