New Orleans With any luck the nice thing about moving into new space is that it forces you to get organized at least a bit, make some decisions about random items, and, heck, maybe even knock a few layers of dust off. Better yet, when you own (in the sense of paying the mortgage, so to …
Category: Personal Writings
Changing Addresses, Changing Attitudes, We Have a Home Place Again
New Orleans It’s a wild couple of days when you combine holidays, family visits and glad tidings, and critical organizational events all in a power-packed couple of days, but that’s been life in our fastlane over the end of the month. Show me someone who says they like moving, and I will introduce you to a …
A Diversity Garden Comes to Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans
New Orleans Fifty years ago, the Class of 1966 entered Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans in the fall of 1963, not unlike tens of thousands of others entering their public high schools in cities and towns all over the United States, all of whom hoped undoubtedly they were special in some personal way, …