UPDATE 12:15pm: Some info in the comments…
Once upon a Katrina time, Polimom’s lens was focused tightly on Algiers – the largely unflooded portion of Orleans Parish that lies across the river from Greater New Orleans. It’s been months since I’ve spoken directly to all those folks, and I don’t know how many of Polimom’s old […]
Every now and again, I have to go poking around online to read what people were saying about Algiers out there in the world when the Katrina chaos was going on. Depending upon which combination of search terms I use, I can get anywhere from a couple hundred to several thousand hits.
Some of it’s really […]
Twenty years ago, Algiers Point was an unbelievably dangerous, drug and crime-infested part of Algiers. Even now, the house in which my boyfriend was murdered in 1977 still stands – a gray, dismal, rundown shotgun that looks just as dilapidated as it ever did.
Yet much of the Point is lovely now, with children, families, couples, […]
Several times a year - for twenty years - I’ve been coming back to New Orleans to visit friends and my “second family�. I’ve been back for weddings, funerals, Mardi Gras, St. Patty’s Day, and just because. And for twenty years, I’ve looked at the city but not seen.
This time, I saw… and it broke […]
This is a vegetarian tortellini MRE. I’m told it’s very tasty - but I don’t intend to open it. Ever.
This MRE is special beyond words, because it was a Thank You yesterday from an Algiers Point person. There’s an entire library of stories behind this MRE.
Algiers - Thank you, for trusting me in those […]
Assuming everybody ever gets up, we get the hound fed and to the kennel, and we actually get into the car anytime soon (all of these are iffy), we’ll be in Algiers early this afternoon. (This probably means I won’t be blogging much…)
To say I’m looking forward to bringing in the New Year with my […]