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Notes from New Orleans, Louisiana. Do you think Dorothy would’ve returned to Kansas if she’d been raised in Oz?

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It’s A Wonderful Life

December 17, 2011 Journal

This is a very random holiday post to end the blogging year. I’ll see you again in January – Happy Holidays! Downshift Like You Mean It I’m shutting down all my work for half of December. Last year I tried to work and it was too stressful. Preschool is closed for two weeks and trying [...]

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On Game Day

November 15, 2011 Journal

I don’t care about football. There. I said it. In the south it’s considered odd to be unenthusiastic about football. But in Louisiana, it’s downright heresy. It’s easier to get away with saying you hate Mardi Gras here than to say you don’t like the Saints. Since the Superbowl it’s only gotten more hysterical. The [...]

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Out With Katrina, In With The Tricentennial

August 25, 2011 Journal

I’m over it. Now this doesn’t mean I’m going to forget what happened, or that the scars I have and fears I carry will ever disappear. But I’ve learned to live with it, and I’ve moved on, just as the vast majority of New Orleans has. All the morbid documentaries on TV this week are [...]

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I Spy Louisiana… In Québec

August 18, 2011 Journal

While traveling in Québec for our 10th anniversary 2 weeks ago, hubby and I started playing “I spy” because there were so many Louisiana names, shapes, or cultural things that kept grabbing our attention. I didn’t think it was possible, but the Fleur de Lis is probably used more there than here. It is the [...]

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The River & The Gulf

October 15, 2010 Journal

Leaving New Orleans… skyline of downtown Nola, the Chalmette Battlefield and Chalmette oil refinery. It’s interesting that you can live your whole life in one place and still discover a new angle to see it from. Over three decades here and I’ve never taken a boat ride from downtown New Orleans, right down through the [...]

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