Sunrise reveals a chilly world in Tallahassee, bejeweled by dew and quiet but for the bright notes of birds. It is Easter Sunday, a day when, I like to imagine, people summon the best of themselves and set aside the worst. Love over hate, and all...
A small, hardback book just came in the mail. It’s about a deadly rampage in 1868 in Chalmette, just downriver from New Orleans, by white vigilantes against Black people recently freed from slavery. Author and historian Chris Dier tells the...
Glittered shoes are distinctively New Orleans works of art. They are projects of love, given freely each year, handed downward by Mardi Gras float riders into a sea of parade-goers, an act intended to connect with a member of the crowd, waiting...
Worldwide negativity has grown as dangerous as the river of psychomagnotheric slime in “Ghostbusters.” One tributary of our current, glowing river of anger flows into the troubled world of Millennials, and frankly, they don’t need our...
In the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, you can tell natives from visitors and newcomers by the way they act at parades. The fresh ones are the skinny, 5-foot, 10-inch-tall (most of them – it’s odd) white guys with short hair and...
I am in the lobby of a Metairie, La., hotel, reading while Lisa performs whatever sorcery and alchemy women do in powder rooms before getting together with other women at fancy places. I’m used to it by now, but I was still unsettled this morning...
Muses Bead Order Deadline Night – I enjoy this evening each year. In a few hours, the deadline will arrive for Krewe of Muses members to submit orders for beads and various other “throws” to toss from their floats in next year’s Muses Mardi...
I have been putting off this post for nearly a month, partly because I’ve been working through stages of grief and denial and partly because I didn’t want this writing to be overly sentimental. I have by now come to some degree of acceptance . ...
1140 St. Charles Ave., Lower Garden District, New Orleans: This is where I work. I helped a co-worker paint these boards in February 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina. I have installed them every Carnival season since then to protect this...
Today, I’m back at Coliseum Square Park in New Orleans, where I often spend lunch hours strolling the grounds, borrowing shade from live oaks, coveting surrounding mansions and trying not to look like a creep on a park bench. Across the...
Aunt Martha and Uncle Charles in Tallahassee have not felt up to the task of stringing lights on their fresh Christmas tree, which you can smell throughout the small house. Since Lisa and I are visiting them we are happily doing that holiday...
In the small, Southeast Louisiana town of Slidell, located on Lake Pontchartrain about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans, I discovered an Easter tradition unique to this region , , ,
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