In my contrarian youth, I considered writing a book called “Lies” since everywhere I looked, from the Easter Bunny to the war in Vietnam, people seemed to be telling whoppers. I never wrote it because a) considering writing a book … Continue reading
Category Archives: At Home and Abroad
What’s Cooking? As is true in France, from which many of its early people came, food plays an outsize role in the life and psyche of New Orleans. Consider airport fodt, pretty much vile from coast to coast in this … Continue reading
Part I: Katrina For the first time since Katrina, I visited New Orleans recently. As a jazz aficionado, I was thrilled to go there in 1968 when an Ohio friend wanted company on a sixteen-hour drive to look over Tulane … Continue reading