Though my box of journals was left on the bottom floor of our house during the flooding of New Orleans, all is not lost. I…
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Though my box of journals was left on the bottom floor of our house during the flooding of New Orleans, all is not lost. I…
If you want to hear what people in New Orleans are concerned about, tune in to United Broadcasters of New Orleans via WWL, the Big…
Our friend James Conrad, not to be confused with the author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, is staying with us for a few…
(Oops — I accidentally posted a fragment of this from a rest area in Kentucky earlier today — a slip of the thumb.) On the…
On the journey between New Orleans and Bloomington, I’ve always preferred the easterly route, through Nashville, as opposed to the westerly route, through Memphis.
Met a guy from Mid-City this morning while eating breakfast at Slim Goodies. He said he was working a job that sounds pretty gruesome: pulling…
My dear friend Mike Kaplan came by our house this afternoon to assess the electrical situation. You see, Mike is a licensed electrician, and right…
Tearing down plaster and lath walls is a lot slower-going than tearing down sheetrock. I’d like to think some of these old plaster walls could…
Ironically, Xy’s dollhouse was flooded to approximately the same level as our own, slightly larger house.
The room we’ve taken to calling the “craft room” in our house used to be a kitchen. The previous owners built a new kitchen upstairs,…
I’ve been working on our house every day since I got here. It’s lonely work, and it can be a little wearing. So today I…
Bit of a breakthrough today. I finished cleaning the nasty, flood-damaged stuff out of our utility room. (Litter box full of month-old floodwater — yuck!)…
Michael graciously allowed me to use his camera for a while, and I took this picture of myself.
A familiar blue car pulled up across the street from our house this afternoon, and I was overjoyed when Danielle and Donika and Crystal and…
We’re dealing with two insurance adjusters — one for flood damage, and one for wind damage. It’s not the most convenient arrangement, but I’m not…
Yesterday was a good day. A hearty breakfast at Slim Goodies, a day of cleaning out the house, meeting with the adjuster, and then meeting…
Just met with Roland Graybill, the adjuster for our flood claim, a lean, long-haired Southern dude. Affable. He took some measurements and some photos and…
I went back to my neighborhood today. The flood-damaged crap which Michael and I had hauled out from my house to the curb was still…
Thirteen hours and 860 miles from Bloomington to New Orleans. Hell of a drive. It looks like this trip will cost about $250 in gas…