It’s the first day of school for Xy today. I took a picture before she drove off to Algiers this morning. Here’s hoping this school…
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It’s the first day of school for Xy today. I took a picture before she drove off to Algiers this morning. Here’s hoping this school…
I put the trash out last night and a rat jumped out of one of the bags as I was carrying it. Shortly after I…
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 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…
…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.
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.…
New Orleans has been visited by a truly biblical plague of flies since the flood waters receded. You can’t eat food outside without being blanketed…
Sometime in the wee hours of yesterday morning my rox.com e-mail account started to choke. I’ve had the same e-mail address for ten years so…
A few months ago I helped some students at Indiana University who were working on a short documentary titled “From New Orleans to the Midwest.”…
Add this to the list of “crazy things white people do”: First, we collected our urine in a bucket. Then Xy poured it into a…
My parents are here for an absurdly short visit. Yesterday I gave them the Mandatory Misery Tour. First we drove to Lakeview. Then to Gentilly.…
The folks at Minnie’s Catfish Corner figured out that I was the guy who posted about them to the MCNO website, and so they gave…
Mark the Carpenter is back at work on our house today, after a hiatus of almost two months. Sadly, his helper Tony is not returning…
Uh oh. I don’t like the looks of this.
As they continue demolishing it, Physicians Hospital is now wide open. I walked in and took some pictures. Man, it’s spooky in there. Added twenty-odd…
Slowly, all too slowly, Mid-City restaurants are re-opening. We went to Katie’s for a Cinco de Mayo party last Friday… It was a one-time affair,…
After about two months of inactivity, the demolition of the old Physicians Hospital on Canal Street has resumed. Not the historic wood frame houses —…
On the way home from a science fair in Algiers, my boss and I came across a rather astonishing sight. I don’t think the camera…
Ahhh… tea, just the way I like it. (Back on the caffeine again after almost a month.)