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Mardi Gras is over.  What’s normal in New Orleans?  It’s not like where you’re from. Every day in New Orleans is a good day.  I know.  I live here.  You can live here, too, at least as long as a vacation. You never know what you’ll see in New Orleans.  Every day is a parade. […]

A flâneur is a boulevardier, someone who strolls the streets and soaks up as much atmosphere as he or she lends to his or her surroundings.  While a flâneur can be either male or female, I am more familiar with the male variety because I am one.  If you want to know which city is

There are plenty of streets in New Orleans.  We live in a kaleidoscope of a city where you never know what pleasant surprise you’ll find when you turn a corner.  If you are bored in New Orleans, it isn’t the city’s fault.  There is always something groovy going on everywhere in New Orleans, even when

You do belong in New Orleans.  New Orleans has something for everyone, everyone from every walk of life.  Don’t be embarrassed by what you are in New Orleans.  New Orleans loves you.  How do I know?  Because I see New Orleans’ love touch people every day.  Visit New Orleans like you belong here and you’ll

Esplanade Avenue is a street in New Orleans that is a world unto itself.  Esplanade Ridge is what we call the neighborhood that runs along Esplanade Avenue, which is a colorful and historic street lined with whimsical gingerbread manor homes.  Our Esplanade Ridge neighborhood is is the spine of this part of the city.  New

If you haven’t gotten your New Orleans groove on yet, you are long overdue.  Where do you go to experience real New Orleans, to really savor the flavor of a New Orleans week?  You don’t go to Bourbon Street.  Unless you are bartender or a server or a musician, if you live in New Orleans,

When I say rebel as a verb, I don’t stay it like “Rebel Yell”, I say it like Ravel’s Bolero.  Souls rebel in New Orleans. Louisiana was one of the Confederate States of America but New Orleans has always been a cosmopolitan city, more French and Haitian than the rest of the Louisiana Purchase or

I got a letter in the mailbag today from a young lady.  I can’t tell you anything more about her identity than that.  Her letter was long and tear-stained.  At the end she asked me, “Do I belong in New Orleans?” All that any one of us can do well is to do our little

Ask someone what makes New Orleans creole and you will get as many answers as the number of people you ask.  Creole is a real thing, but you’ll only recognize it if you are in a New Orleans state of mind.  Don’t let anyone tell you blackened catfish is creole.  It isn’t.  It’s cajun.  There

New Orleans is The City That Care Forgot.  It is the city time forgot, too.  New Orleans is called the Big Easy for good reasons. I was talking about this with Yana, today.  She said, “Every day seems to be the same here.  New Orleans is a place where we make good memories every day,