New Orleans At midnight on New Years’ Eve four families stood in front of their houses on Jourdan Avenue in the deepest part of the now famous Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. The fog was everywhere as it collected from the Mississippi River only blocks away and from the Industrial Canal a mere few feet …
Category: Community Organizing
Resolutions
New Orleans Whew! Glad 2005 is over, so we can move forward some way or another. What a year! Here are some quick resolutions to help make 2006 happen right: Stay home more. Given my four months away just on Katrina, I’m going to make this one happen. Make sure New Orleans gets a new …
Homecoming — Part 2
New Orleans In life sometimes we end up with answers to propositions that others did not even realize were questions. For example, we now know that the distance between Aguascalientes and New Orleans is twenty-four hours. The other thing we know is that when you are coming home… really and finally, coming home, it really …