New Orleans Mardi Gras season is rough for year round residents. It’s not the going to parades but navigating the parade routes so that regular work and life maintains its semi-normal routine. It’s also stomaching the symbols. Mardi Gras marks the beginning of Lent on the Christian calendar with Easter forty days away. Historically, Mardi …
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Personal Parade
New Orleans At the crack of dawn something was passing in front of the house. There was some solitary shuffling, some rattling, a shout of “come on!,” and the deep, hollow blare of a long horn. I didn’t move a muscle. No reason to heed any of this. Today is Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and …
Pulling Shots in the Service Industry
New Orleans Getting up at 430 AM to go to work reminded me of the days worked in the oil fields and offshore after high school where the clock started at 6AM and I had to be in the field or on the boat, or at Luzianne Coffee Company when I was 19 and 20 and …