Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Saturday, September 17, 2005: Today in New Orleans, a traffic light worked. Someone watered flowers. And anyone with the means to get online could have heard Dr. Joy’s voice wafting in the dry wind, a...

The departure of our ships from New Orleans symbolizes another positive step in the city’s recovery as we prepare for our return to New Orleans in October to resume normal cruise operations.

I have fourteen black wives an’ one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place in my bed tonight, Mama Sam Moon.”Was sex all these...

We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in by state and federal authorities for the first several days. We’ve received 2,000 e-mails and phone...

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if...

I do not believe the press is guilty of the charge that it abandoned its healthy skepticism in Iraq , and I would hate to see it draw the inference from New Orleans that ‘in...

There was no control except the “mood of his power… and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series...

Strong hands slipped over her shoulders as Alex joined us, standing so close, I could feel his body heat radiating up my back….He squeezed my shoulders a little hard for it to be a show...

My first thought was that a tornado had somehow picked me up and carried me off, like in the Wizard of Oz. No old witches pedaled by, and I didn’t see any flying farm animals...

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

I narrowed my eyes. Jean stayed awfully well informed about prete politics, and often told me things the Elders hadn’t yet learned. I suspected this might be one of those things. “How do you know...

The scenario of New Orleans is you have wounded people helping wounded people.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom.” -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

We alone at the Humane Society of the United States, through our 1-800 number, logged 1,500 calls from people who lived in New Orleans and said they left their pets there,

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans...

A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There’s no people. It’s like trying to interview someone’s guitar.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

Go home, Rand.” I am home. Where are you? I frowned and burrowed my face into the soft down pillow. Which wasn’t my pillow. Holy crap. What had happened? I sat up and took in...

Reminder: Dump Brains and Bowels in Hazmat Bin!

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Suspicion infused Alex’s voice. “Okay? That’s it?”I looked back at him and smiled. “That’s it. We disagree. It’s done. We’ll deal with whatever comes next.”He stood up, brows lowered over squinty eyes. “Did Lafitte ply...

Having lived through the last year here, this is my advice to New Orleans and the other Gulf Coast towns: Don’t make big camps with thousands of people, because it doesn’t work. It takes a...

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn’t that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because...

At this point, you should go with the majors. Now is the time to stick with your large, name-brand charities. Someone who did a good job with the tsunami effort is probably prepared to do...

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Going to college don’t make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

I don’t have much family. And if we were related, I’d be pissed off that you have better cheekbones.

All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.Besides me, of course.

Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.

I would say Randolph’s a horse’s ass, but that would be unfair to the horse.

The resources of the state to date have been on getting the living out of New Orleans. It is changing to recovering those who perished.

We are poised for a strong economic recovery. New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in America. Federal and state activities are in place to design, develop, construct, and enhance protection from flooding. We...

When I see you, Jolie, I see a woman who is far more than she realizes but who will someday grow into her powers. One who is much stronger than those who would trap her...

Since the hurricanes, a lot of new minority businesses that had to evacuate New Orleans have set up offices here. Once they settle here, we want to do everything we can to keep them here.

We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now.

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the...

Good luck with that, Jolie.

I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire… and turned into one myself. It’s made my life since gross...

Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New...

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and with its windows open to the courtyard below. I was in fact looking...

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn’t have a very large corporate base.

Then I shall tell you the truthful answers to the questions you asked, about my own intentions and motivations. They are not so simple.”…He cocked an eyebrow and his cobalt eyes took on a playful...

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that...

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.