This picture has been featured on the nola.com homepage for the last 24 hours: She’s cleaning up her home in Lakeview. Personally I find it…
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This picture has been featured on the nola.com homepage for the last 24 hours: She’s cleaning up her home in Lakeview. Personally I find it…
A few things that I didn’t post which still stand out in my mind from our recent trip to New Orleans: There were lots of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Just got a phone call from my friend and co-worker Howie. He’s back in New Orleans. He was lucky. His home escaped damage. But he’s…
The drive to NOLA / Jacob Appelbaum / CC BY-SA 2.0 Jacob Appelbaum has posted a bunch of photos that were taken in New Orleans…
I know school’s back in session, cuz I can hear the Warren Easton High School Marching Band. Right now they’re directly in front of our…
Students go back to the New Orleans Public Schools today. In theory anyway. In practice — but that’s another story. The big hype this year?…
Viriler. That’s the word I used as the first play of our first game of Scrabble last night. (It was four-way Scrabble: Xy vs. me…
How hot is it? It’s bitch-ass hot here in New Orleans. There’s just no other way to describe it. I asked Xy yesterday, “If you…
Michael H. and David B. and I went for a three-mile hike along an abandoned railway corridor that cuts through Mid-City. We think it’s an…
The university where I work is located on the edge of a neighborhood called Gert Town. Back when I lived Uptown, I used to ride…
Xy & I have been living in New Orleans for six years now. But we’ve only been married for eleven and a half years. That…