New Orleans It was just another day for my mother, but it was her birthday, and she was now 92 years’ old, and that’s quite something in itself. Several times during the week before she had asked me if her mother was still alive, and I would explain that she had died forty years earlier. …
Category: Personal Writings
U-Haul is Becoming U-Fixit, We Rip-U!
New Orleans There’s a U-Haul location right at the railroad tracks hardly more than a half-mile from where I live and even closer to where we were assembling to move stuff from half a shotgun double to a storage unit a couple of miles down the road. Given the convenience, it never occurred to me to call …
Stuff
New Orleans In the red-hot real estate market in Hong Kong they are selling something called “mosquito” apartments that are less than 180 square feet. There was a picture in the paper comparing the size, unfavorably, to that of a parking slot. Real estate brokers were suggesting that you could use the window sill for …