French Quarter Fridays: Backstage

So, I just spent the better part of my spare and stolen moments, for the last several days, glued to news, watching Hurricane Isaac steal upon the Gulf Coast and do his stormy thang.  Nothing drives me battier than watching storms like that roll up on my favored part of the United terrain, when I’m…

French Quarter Friday: It’s In the Details

One should never rush and hurry and zoom through the French Quarter.  (Unless, of course, one is running exceedingly late for work or somesuch.)  There is just too much to see, and that does not include just the Big Stuff like the St. Louis Cathedral or Jackson Square or the view of the river from…

Gasp! Date Night!

Holy wow, retail schedules have me a’runnin’!  It is an interesting experience, after having a constant schedule for over a decade, to have my routine change week by week.  I am not complaining, though.  It wipes me out, but at least I never fall into a rut, to say the least.  I get one day…