New Orleans        In the post-Katrina living in the Bywater neighborhood and working in Marigny, the neighborhood between mine and the French Quarter, we are sometimes reminded that we have been gentrified on the high ground now.  And, if not gentrified, then at the least we have become some kind of hipster, tres chic address …

 Little Rock    As a protest and oppositional movement this is gentle fare.  Reading Mike Lux’s manifesto there’s almost an apology to the President, while raising a hand from the back of the room in objection, but a protest this is, and a serious one, as good people and some sound, Nobel prize winning economists, raise …

Little Rock    There have to be some habits and certainties and for my family one of them is going to Little Rock for mi companera’s family reunion on the Saturday before Easter.  The family swears they really want to see each other, but after many years of experience the mass volumes of fried catfish, fries, …