Here is the church, here is the steeple
I received an email from Trip Advisor, almost immediately after I returned from New Orleans, suggesting that I check out St. Patrick’s Church! That was the main reason I visited the city! The Writing Marathon was the perfect excuse to visit in June but my main intention was to learn more about the church. My…
New Orleans
25 days ago, I landed in New Orleans. 17 days ago, I left. The week in between was a blur! Not the hazy, hungover blur that you associate with a visit to that city but a vibrating, busy week that flew like a weekend! I wanted to write in the city, I hoped to verify…
Misunderstanding
An unintentional, adult version of the Telephone game just made this session even more fun! During the New Orleans Writing Marathon, small groups visit various spots in New Orleans to stop and write. I wrote with groups in an art gallery, Congo Square and many restaurants and bars! At one point, a group of us…
Red Rayne
Visiting New Orleans with PRP added additional levels of preparation and precaution. This was not a throw-on-a-sundress-and-go type of visit! I am much better but I still can’t really perspire and can’t afford a sunburn. Last year, at this time, I was red over most of my body and I could not regulate my body…
…for the Labor Day Weekend Show
Come Monday, it’ll be alright. Jimmy Buffet lyrics have long been the soundtrack for those ready for a pitcher of margaritas and a cheeseburger in Paradise! (It’s five o’clock, somewhere!) As a Florida native, there was no escape from Jimmy Buffet songs on the beach–played by those tourists covered in oil. (I am the one…
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
I was lucky enough to take an impromptu trip down, this summer with friends and some of our kids. The city feeds my soul! I’m always looking for a way to get back to New Orleans. I set the novel I’m trying to finish in the Crescent City. so I can still “travel” there, mentally…
Just Gone
Perseverance Hall is just gone. It has been a year since I read about the “jazz incubator’s” fall. I was editing a separate yet related post, when I realized that this one has been sitting in my drafts folder for a full year. (Both the date on the nola.com article and my initial draft of…
You have to believe we are magic…
I had her haircut(s). I had her albums. I bought Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, Just Seventeen and People magazines and kept a scrapbook of clippings featuring Olivia Newton-John posing with other celebrities, riding horses on her ranch or listing her favorite beauty tips. Posters of her face stared back from my walls. Having received an…
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme
Sitting still is not exactly a workout. Crafting fiction is a bit of a mental workout; is that why it makes me so hungry? As soon as I set a word count goal or come up with what I believe to be an intriguing twist, all I can think about is what I am going…
Let it rain
I am old enough to know better. I should at least be old enough not to let fear get in the way of what I want to do but maybe I’m still young at heart! After launching this blog last year, I deleted every subsequent post. I was writing but I wasn’t posting–making it more…
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