Today I was caught cheating on a man with another man. I know, you say, “OH, the HUMANITY!” But when a girl needs her hair cut before an event, she goes to desperate measures. As a result, I now have two Hair Guys. Before Blush Ball, I was desperate for a cut. I was notified,…
I Veaux-ted!
I have never cared so much about a city in my entire life. Today was a landmark day as I strolled up Jackson in this gorgeous weather, and voted for the very first time as a New Orleans citizen. After years of following the politics of this city from afar, the struggles and the corruption…
Blush Ball 2014!!!
It all started with a bracelet and a flier. Actually, it started a few years ago, as I sat in Denver pining for the NOLA life, scrolling through site after site and looking at photos and reading the news and staring at everything I could that would transport me as I saved and stocked up…
Sunday’s Big Bang
I was covered in glass. Big chunks, little shards, stardust. All over. It took a fraction of a minute after the impact to get the car moved the rest of the way across Magazine St. I began to ride out the full-body case of shakes after we stopped completely and while I was doing that,…
Street Art, Literally (Sidewalk Edition)
If you take a glance up at the featured image there, you’ll get a feel for why, some days, you feel like you can only navigate by foot if you stare consistently at the ground and cast your eye nary another place. Nature tends to prevail, here. The ground isn’t really solid, and the trees…
It’s Carnival Time!!!
So, Follow Your Crazy turned 2 yesterday. I can’t believe it. I would be a little more celebratory of this if I had been faithfully writing this whole time, but I seem to have fallen off the Earth again. Lots of adjustment period going on here, in this new home which I love and adore. …
In That Number (WHO DAT!)
Man, I tell ya. It is really really REALLY hard to get work done when, three stories below your office window, streams of Who Datians flood past hooting and hollering and chanting. Damn! I really wanted to knock out early today and join the flood with a beer and some hollers of my own! But,…
Eight Years Later: My Away-from-Katrina Story
Today I got up and rode the streetcar to work, did my job, had a po-boy for lunch, continued to do my job, rode the streetcar home, and am now writing this while drinking out of a Juan’s Flying Burrito go-cup and the Saints kick off in about 15 minutes. Business as usual. But not…
DIRT!!!
I am happy to announce that Herbology is alive and well in New Orleans. This past Sunday, I found myself elbow-deep in dirt, with smudges of loamy soil embracing my face and smells of several different forms of greenery wafting up my nose. I found my Pure Joy, and was insanely glad to be in a…
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