Author name: himanshusharma

Spend 15 minutes in New Orleans and I guarantee you’ll appreciate being alive.  It may be quicker.  The only reason I can think of if it takes longer is that you are already a corpse.  Then, it definitely will take longer, if it happens at all. Even skeletons dance in New Orleans.  They kick of […]

New Orleans is just like where you are right now, only New Orleans is better.  How do I know?  I live here.  All is well and good in New Orleans.  It always is.  Everything is exactly as it should be, warts, scars, and all. Can you count the stars in the sky?  Only if you

Life itself is an exercise in exceptions.  The spaces between facts are pregnant with things undescribed and unexplained.  Have you been to New Orleans recently?  New Orleans will be here when you’re ready.  We’re looking forward to it. NEW ORLEANS IS CALLING YOU. New Orleans is a city that knows arithmetic but the city doesn’t

The simplest statement can only be the most prosaic.  The sun shines.  New Orleans is.  The simplest statement can be, on reflection, the most profound. The sun always shines in New Orleans, even when it’s raining.  It happens every day in August for about 20 minutes in the afternoon. The sun doesn’t shine at night in New Orleans.  People do.  

New Orleanians don’t think of what we do as being for tourists.  We know people come from all over the world to visit New Orleans, to see what makes the city unique, but I don’t know anyone who goes out of their way to be unique in New Orleans.  We just are what we are,

We are pursuing a policy of truth.  I read in the Wall Street Journal today that “Small Business Owners Fret Over Loan Delays.”  I didn’t need to read it on the front page of the newspaper to learn that.  I’m one of them. Melanie, who is the better half of this operation, talked with our

Have you ever had a sandwich?  A New Orleans po’ boy is a sandwich on steroids.   You can usually get them 6″ long or 12″ long.  Six inches of overstuffed po’ boy is enough for me.  Peacemaker po’ boys only come in 12 inches. Whenever you see po’ boys advertised, the are always advertised

Hello, April!  Blue skies and a chilly 75 degrees here today.  I’m wearing a sweater.  I have lived here too long.  Plus, the temperature just dropped about 10 degrees overnight.  I’m slow to adjust.  Besides, hospitality is not dead in New Orleans, not by a long shot. People are out and about but New Orleans

You have to be optimistic to fall in love with New Orleans.  Ours is an improbable city built in a swamp.  It was founded in 1718.  302 years and still going strong.  New Orleans will endure forever, even under sea level.  New Orleans is not Atlantis.  It is a slice of heaven on earth.  Welcome.

I went to a New Orleans speakeasy.  I can’t tell you where I went, naturally, not that you would want to go there.  Don’t freak out, everyone was practicing good social distancing but everyone also needed a little society.  New Orleans is a city based on community.  Too much time apart gives us the heebie-jeebies.