New Orleans Getting more experience in hospital emergency and waiting rooms is on no one’s top ten list, but, trust me, you do the time and this comes with the territory. If you can call it luck, it’s not you personally, though the anger and aggravation when it is family is every bit as bad. People …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Standing Rock and Veterans Stand
New Orleans Standing Rock seems like yesterday though it was the fall and winter of 2016, when the Standing Rock Sioux were joined by representatives of tribes from throughout the nation and thousands of supporters in an encampment that tried to stop the completion of the Dakota Pipeline. The fight inspired deep support. A …
Cold Weather and Warm Hearts in Michigan
Detroit I saw the picture of the woman who won the Boston Marathon in what was described as epically horrible conditions. Normally in the embrace of a New Orleans spring I would simply shake my head and say, “why?” Not this year, because I felt like I had lived my own version as I broke …