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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.

Who would drop dried lentils by the handful in out-of-the-way places in New Orleans?  One never knows what one will find in New Orleans, even in the most neglected and off-the-tourist-radar parts of this wonderful city we call home. Was it voodoo?  That is always the first question in New Orleans, at least from people

I found a quarter on the sidewalk today.  It was scuffed and scratched but it was still worth 25 U.S. cents.  You can take that to the bank.  God bless New Orleans.  God bless the U.S. of A. I put the quarter in my pocket. I was walking our dog, as I do every morning.

In the fullness of time, everything happens just as it is supposed to happen, everything in its place. New Orleans is about a hundred miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River.  The dry ground between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River is narrowest in New Orleans.  That is why Bayou Road is the oldest