(Yes, that’s a picture of my pumpkin!)
When I was a kid, jack-o-lanterns were pretty vanilla. My mom and I would scoop the mucky innards out of the pumpkin onto thick newspapers, and then throw the mess away. Then we’d draw shapes with a marker, and my dad would cut them out with his knife.
The […]
If you live anywhere on the Gulf Coast, you really should be regularly reading Dave Barry. Since naming a hurricane after a Flinstone just wasn’t funny enough for me this year, I really appreciate Dave in south Florida, so he can help me laugh at it all. How convenient that we have one of the […]
Yet again, I’m writing about charter schools being approved for New Orleans. I think this time, though, it’ll stick. (Of course, the Teacher’s Union may yet throw a monkey wrench. They’re already throwing a “hissy fitâ€?.) For what it’s worth, I think it’s a great idea, if only because it will redraw the lines of […]
Sitting at swim practice late last spring, a group of moms were talking (as we always do). For a change, the discussions weren’t about vacation schedules or swimming abilities. Rather, these moms were intensely debating a book… or rather, they were exploring their deepest core values and how they fit with the new […]
I gotta tell ya – this need some people seem to have to share their sexual orientation, latest flames, recent break-ups, and the nitty gritty details behind their lives is really beyond me. I have never understood it, but this week’s “bare-all about myself� disclosures got put to good use at my house.
Everybody knows […]
I have tried all week to visualize the world we live in today, had Rosa Parks not refused to give up her seat. I can’t come up with it. The ramifications of that event changed our society as profoundly as if the sun had suddenly started rising in the west.
It’s gratifying to read today that […]
Did you know the Red Cross has a $3 billion budget, and that 2/3 of that money gets spent on blood collection? I had no idea. Thanks to the Washington Post this morning, I not only learned this, but also that the American Red Cross has had to apply for loans just to cover the […]
Sounds like some former New Orleans police are learning some hard lessons from the Dallas Police Department - they’re not wanted. However, chastising the individuals is like pulling leaves from a diseased tree. If the main entity isn’t treated, there will simply be more dead leaves. NOLA.com’s article says,
Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Floyd Simpson […]
Oh nononono. I can’t get my mind around this idea at all!
And who is Benson kidding, anyway, with the schizophrenic approaches he’s been taking? Yesterday, he ran an ad in the Times Picayune saying he was not committed to leaving, yet according to the Washington Post,
The Saints have already taken steps to attempt to void […]
Well, that would appear to be that. Harriet Miers is walking away from the fray.
It’s hard to say who will be happier - the religious right, who clearly need a flag-waving anti-abortion justice (no, George, they really didn’t trust you), or the liberal left, who did believe George this time.
Made for an interesting week […]
Maybe I’m just imagining things, but I think I’m hearing drums in my sleep. So far, they’re pretty arrhythmic – but they’re definitely getting louder, and I’ll be very concerned when they steady into the pulsing, marching beats of war. One would think the musicians would be ready for a rest, but it doesn’t sound […]