August 2019 – Follow Your Crazy

X Marks the Anniversary

If you drive or walk or trip or amble around New Orleans long enough, you start to notice something. A common something, a something that lies consistent among all neighborhoods and in all parts of town. That something is the Katrina X. The Katrina X is everywhere. Those urban search and rescue markings…are everywhere. Still. …

Passing By

I’ve really missed the simple act of wandering around and Seeing Stuff. I’ve been in a Seeing Stuff drought ever since a.) J and I started carpooling downtown together for work and b.) We moved to Gentilly, removing even the luxury of just taking a streetcar home if I decided I felt like it. Both…

FQ Friday: Stealing Back the Streets

Sometimes, in the French Quarter, the ghosts and the vampires and the voodoo queens and the many pasts and histories of this city will rise up and swirl and eddy around you like a small spiritual tropical storm…and that magical intensity can knock the air out of you and will absolutely solidify the fact that…

Boiling

I woke up this morning intent on starting my Sunday peacefully – curled up in my chair in the Hobbit library with a book and a cup of tea – so I came downstairs and started rummaging through the tea cabinet to figure out what I was in the mood for. Earl Grey, it turns…