Tag: New Year
Mid-City Messenger
I’m happy to announce I’m writing a column for Mid-City Messenger. Here’s the first installment: “Happy New Year, Egg Roll Man.”
Read More → Mid-City MessengerMixed Omens
My new year seemed to be getting off to an auspicious start. We ran around a candle on the neutral ground at midnight; we ate some Hoppin’ John and cabbage; I slept in the next morning; I avoided a hangover. Later in the day we even got a visit from the Egg Roll Man. So […]
Read More → Mixed OmensA Very Good Year
Our year ended much as it began — yet also so differently. It began at the bonfire on Orleans Avenue. I had shaved off half my beard and looked like a madman. Xy ran round the fire once for good luck, which was an accomplishment given the advanced state of her pregnancy. Looking back at […]
Read More → A Very Good YearYear 1, Day 1
As I noted a few days ago, this is the first day of my new year, and the first year of my new era. This is not a day for celebration, not a holiday. We just had four or five of those in a row. Today is a day for returning to work, returning to […]
Read More → Year 1, Day 1And a Sweaty New Year
Goodbye 2005. The general consensus here in New Orleans seems to be: We’re glad to see this one go. I used to think of the year I lived in Sweden as the worst in my life, wrought as it was with teen angst and personal conflicts and the pain of apostasy, not to mention the […]
Read More → And a Sweaty New Year