Author name: himanshusharma

Another nice day. In January 2021 I got into a wager with Jimmy.  He bet me the pandemic would still be going on by my birthday, which is in December.  Jimmy was 21 years older than me at the time.  I guess he still is. We got to talking about it.  The conversation went on […]

Today was a good day.  Every day in New Orleans is a good day.  You should try it sometime. I was talking with Serra, the masseuse yesterday.  We were talking about the Causeway.  I hate the Causeway.  Why?  Because I hate to leave New Orleans.  You will, too. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest bridge

There was a big party at the house across the street.  You know the kind, a motorcade of limousines with a police escort.  I wasn’t invited so I don’t know who was there.  I don’t think it was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.  It seems unlikely but anything is possible.  There was a brass band

It is nice to meet you, stranger.  Have you ever eaten too much cake and ice cream?  Living in New Orleans is living at the point just before enough becomes too much.  I love where I live.  You will, too.  There is no place else like New Orleans.  I know.  I live here.  I have

In the cafe society demi-monde I inhabit, some people make living in New Orleans a form of art.  Art in New Orleans takes many shapes.   There are all kinds of artists in New Orleans.  I know.  I live here.  I see them all the time. When it comes to headgear I pretty much limit

A rose between two bald thorns.  As goes Maine, so goes the nation.  The state’s motto is, “Dirigo,” which is Latin for, “I lead.”  Nice people come from Maine.  It is the Pine Tree State. People from New England love New Orleans.  It happens all the time.  I am from New England.  Look at me.

You will never forget your first visit to New Orleans.  Even if all you do are the most touristy things, like a paddlewheel cruise on the Mississippi River, jazz brunch at Court of the Two Sisters, Hurricanes around the dueling pianos at Pat O’Brien’s, a night on Bourbon Street— even if you do only the

I don’t often recommend Ralph’s-on-the-Park because I enjoy going there and, when I go, I like to read the Wall Street Journal with minimal interruptions.  The staff at Ralph’s-on-the-Park is professional, the ambience is suitable for my surroundings, I enjoy the view out the plate glass windows that overlook the old main entrance to City Park (Pizatti

The older I get, the more rarely I drink root beer.  The last time I had a root beer was probably at Ted’s Frosttop because that’s what you get when you go to Ted’s Frosttop.  I go to the Ted’s Frosttop on on South Claibourne Avenue.  It’s the only one in the city.  I understand there are one or

If there is a quintessential flavor that embodies New Orleans when you taste it, it is the taste of Barq’s root beer, which is made from sarsaparilla instead of from sassafras as other, inferior, root beers are made. Sassafras is filé.  Everyone knows that.  Filé is for gumbo.  Everyone knows that. The flavor of Barq’s is like everything