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My family safely returned back to Kansas. I remain here in New Orleans until Thursday evening. I miss my family like crazy, but if I have to be away from home...I am glad that I am here. I feel incredibly blessed to have experienced New Orleans with my kids. I think that New Orleans has forever...
Today the long arm of the law has reached out and shoved its fist up my ass. Make no doubt about it, brothers and sisters, Big Brother is coming to get your ass, and he is coming at you through the traffic cameras. The mail finally came late this afternoon and I had a suspiciously bill-like envelope...
The strangest thing just happened. In the middle of making my Things on Tuesday ice cream list there was a knock at the door. I trudged into the living room and opened the front door in my jammies to find an obviously homeless, one-eyed old black man on the other side. He had a bucket with him, the...
la Rue Bourbon is an all senses experience. Here's the experience in a nut shell: $3 beers you can buy from a table set up in an alley, humidity, fake voodoo trinkets sold to tourists, sporatic rain, excellent music, sex shops and the nauseating smell of urine, sweat, sex and swamp.
I am writing from Bourbon Street in New Orleans. I brought my husband and kids here for the weekend, before I started another week of work down here. I am excited about this weekend, as it is my kids first experience in The Big Easy. My husband and I came here four or five years ago, before Katrina....
My last day as a Louisiana resident, at least for now. I will miss home and my friends and family. But it is time for a new adventure, and it begins in Chicago..
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In the wake of yesterdays earthquake in Southern California, I can’t help but think that there is going to be another one soon and that it is going to be the BIG ONE that everyone says is going to hit California sometime soon. What does this mean for the residents of the Golden State? Well I think...
We have just returned home from a few days in The Big Easy. Thankfully no one came down with a stomach bug unlike our previous two vacations! We a lot of fun even though the weather was either almost unbearably hot and muggy or pouring buckets of rain. Most of our pictures feature our main form of...
There isn't very much information about this yet. Here is the Reuters report so far. Spill Closes Mississippi River from New Orleans to Gulf Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:46am EDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - Efforts to control an oil spill from a ship collision have closed the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the...
We spent a few days in New Orleans for the International Jazzercise Convention. Next time we'll book extra time. There's SO much to do there and we just didn't have enough time. Here are the highlights... We took the Riverfront Streetcar to Cafe du Monde for beignets and cafe au lait. YUM. We did...
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Chris Rose is a columnist for the Times-Picayune. His book 1 Dead in Attic is a collection of his post-Katrina columns. The city he describes in this book is a battered, broken city, but we all knew that. What Rose wants his readers to know is that the...
Twice in 7 days I made the daily pick at Mog.com. It is a music community based soley on music. All we do is blog and talk about music. I have had some of the most intense debates on there and to make the daily pick AGAIN so quickly is pure joy. I have been on Mog.com for a year and I am still...
I'd tried to figure out what to say about New Orleans other than the "we went here, we did this" synopsis that ended up happening. For whatever reason, I clammed...or I guess more appropriately, oystered...up on how to put into words what New Orleans is like--at least to me. Because there's so much...
I spent a couple days...well, more like a day and a half...in New Orleans last week. It's been over five years and was therefore long overdue. And it did my soul all kinds of good. It only takes about three hours to get there...so I have no excuse for not visiting more often. It seems that the place...
Guess who I'm going to be seeing, and these are just on the main stage (there are two other stages for local and regional acts, I believe): R.E.M. Nine Inch Nails Stone Temple Pilots Lil Wayne Erykah Badu Dashboard Confessional Shudder to Think Death Cab For Cutie DeVotchKa The Gutter Twins Cold War...
Received a forward of a forward of a forward of a forward from a friend this morning juxtaposing the response to flooding in Iowa to the response following Hurricane Katrina. I'll copy and paste the original email text here. The subject line is "Iowa disaster": Half the state is under water and I...
This morning I woke up and washed out the mixture of champagne, bananas, Florida water, grapes, rose petals, cornmeal, and incense that stayed in my hair all night while I waited for Marie Laveau to appear to me in my dreams. Last night I attended my first Vodou ceremony, and I don’t intend for it...
Families in Katrina Temporary Housing Face Health Problems Compiled by Annie Schleicher for NewsHour Extra June 10, 2008 The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, wants to close six trailer parks in Louisiana and the City of New Orleans is giving residents until July to find new housing....
The PalmPilot Early PDA Link: US Robotics Press Release Dick's Gadget Warehouse On this Friday 13th, Dick and Leo are not afraid to talk, and talk they did. The original Palm was the Palm Pilot 1000, with a higher model called Pilot 5000, released in March 1996. In March 1997, the Palm Pilot...
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