Tin and I got up and went to Zumba and had a particularly wonderful class. Then we showered and went to Louis Armstrong Park to go to Music for All Ages, which is one of the best kept secrets in New Orleans. Any child can show up with an instrument and be taught to play and play along with these seasoned professionals. It was good getting back into the groove – we haven’t been in…
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams This was one of the first years since returning from California in 2005 that I did not attend the Tennessee Williams Festival. The reason – dinero no hay. I let lapse my MOMA, NOMA, Ogden, City Park, Pitot House, and everything else membership because charity begins at home when you are starting over. I was reading that Tennessee died in 1983 and…
There is a pathway that goes from Carrolton to the French Quarter. It used to be a canal where the boats that came in from the Lake, into the Bayou, went down this Canal and turned on Basin Street in a big turning basin. The effort is underway to turn this strip of land into a recreational path called the Lafitte Corridor. I imagine the future where we take our bikes to the Quarter along…