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  • Cold hands and feet, warm cafes

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    Snow fell north of the city on Friday night, and a freeze warning followed in the same area on Saturday night. 25 miles from the city, but people in New Orleans (who have not seen a hard freeze in over a decade) worried it and talked about with a great [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:13am EST
    by darnola

  • RIP Pam-but no peace for those that resist citizens' needs..

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    I sit here typing a report for work my organization has done, which included programs/assistance in lower 9th ward, especially Sankofa Marketplace. As I do, I think of great organizers and brave citizens who learned new skills and fought the powers for their rights and for [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:16pm EST
    by darnola

  • Green building, green money.

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    I recently presented at the Sierra Club's New Orleans Green Rebuilding Conference at the Doubletree. Big fan of the organization. I think they are keeping the conversation going and real issues on the table. Not a diatribe against our leading enviros.
    But was troubled by the lack of interest among [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:43am EST
    by darnola

  • How regional food is central to the debate, no matter what

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    Michael Pollan interview [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:04pm EST
    by darnola

  • We're okay with being on the Fringe...

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    What is the New Orleans Fringe?

    Fringe theater is a tradition that started in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947 when eight performing groups were excluded from the mainstream annual arts festival. They decided to perform anyway, finding inexpensive or free venues on the fringes of the city. The Edinburgh Fringe [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by darnola

  • Sleep to dream? Or to stay away?

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    Shock is sort of like a ghost that comes to visit and moves things around and when you return, you notice things have changed a bit.

    I recognized its aftermath a few Saturdays ago, while riding my new Schwinn bike through City Park on a beautiful Saturday. Freshly moved [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:11pm EST
    by darnola

  • Trying to experience

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    I cannot believe my topsy turvy reality this weekend.

    Good: I had a good lunch on Saturday with a friend.
    Bad: I had an average lunch today.


    Good: Had some fun chats with people on Facebook.
    Bad: Had an annoying chat with someone on Facebook.
    Good: [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:19pm EST
    by darnola

  • Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans

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    As usual, what is interesting about any local non-fiction book is the number of details that I knew, and here it is the number of faces already known to me. Some I know enough to stop and talk with whenever we run into each other, some [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Poolhouse

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    For those of you not on Facebook, I add this post from "over there" and promise my full return to my blog in November. Much ready to add here.







    Mandabita poolhouse. Grandfather built it in the early 1970s, and it [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Bohemian Jungle from Jonathan

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    A photo exhibit and book depict New Orleans turn-of-the-21st-century bohemia.

    The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave., 504.920.3980, www.nolafront.org

    Art in an Urban Jungle that's mostly Jungle

    Jonathan Traviesa’s exhibit "Photographs in New Orleans 1998-2009," now on display at The Front is a collection of black and white' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
    by darnola

  • What now?

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    So, another box and some hanging clothes and I am done with moving. Well besides the interesting unpacking from someone who has boxes from the vestiges of her wet post-K apartment. And a few packed last year after 2.4 years in FEMA trailer...
    Opening boxes, and looking at things I [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 7:46pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Goodbye French Quarter, hello Spanish St. John

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    I have been slowly preparing myself to move back to my chosen neighborhood, Bayou St. John/aka MidCity/aka JazzFest Neighborhood/aka Fair Grinds area....

    Since I was a crazy teen (roaming the Quarter barefoot and bookish), I have used the Esplanade corridor as my escape route OUT. On bike and on [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 7:58am EDT
    by darnola

  • DON'T Defer...

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    Frank Furedi | September 02, 2009
    Article from: The Australian

    ONE of the most influential contemporary cultural myths is that our era is characterised by the end of deference.

    Commentators interpret the declining influence of traditional authority and institutions as proof that people have become less deferential and [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
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  • Interview with activist-writer Rebecca Solnit

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    Solnit interview [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:25pm EDT
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  • Coffee with chicory-Stand Up!

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    Recently, I was reading “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” by Rebecca West. I picked it up because it’s about Yugoslavia amid the days just before WW2 (yes we Poles remained fascinated), when the author traveled back there for her second time and because its a huuuge book to take along [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:18pm EDT
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  • Trees are good

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    A unique African tree could dramatically improve the yield of crops planted under its canopy by providing natural, renewable fertilizer, says a new study.

    The tree has the potential to aid farmers throughout Africa, South America, and much of south and Southeast Asia, according to the researchers. msnbc [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Putting Disaster In Its Place

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    the umbrella | putting disaster in its place

    August 29, 2009 marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—the disaster that will define life for years to come in a region spanning from coastal Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama.

    And yet, so what do we make of this? With global [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
    by darnola

  • This mural is ...

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    This mural is on Poydras and worth taking a closer look at. Who put this up? Amazing that it has remained...


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    Darlene Wolnik
    director-marketshare program | marketumbrella.org
    200 Broadway, Suite 107 | New Orleans, LA  70118
    email: darlene@marketumbrella.org
    tel: 504-861-4485 | fax: 504-861-4489
    direct: 504-208-1579 | mobile: [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Goodbye 3320 St. Peter

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    Tomorrow at noon, I sell my lot. I sell it to a couple that I like, that I think should be in our city, and in our neighborhood, so that is excellent news. I can add to my savings which is also excellent news. I help my neighbors get someone [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Activism clarified

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    A lot of activists expect that for every action there is an equal and opposite and punctual reaction, and regard the lack of one as failure... But history is shaped by the groundswells and common dreams that single acts and moments only represent. It's a landscape more complicated than commensurate' [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Foods found here help you

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    I think this belongs here (on my New Orleans blog) since its about liver health(!!) and also shows a number of every day foods we eat here in the Alligator Bioregion:

    Leafy Greens: Spinach, spring mix, mustard greens, and other dark leafy greens are good sources of fibre and [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:27am EDT
    by darnola

  • Another city, another study

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    The mother of all farmers markets, even on Wednesday
    temporary(?)public bathrooms with handwashing in front of city hall

    So, am sitting at the fair trade coffeehouse, having my iced espresso, typing away. Sounds and feels familiar, just this time, I'm in Madison Wisconsin,' [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 7:31am EDT
    by darnola

  • Logic of Sufficiency

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    Great book. I think the framework of scale is so necessary for all of us involved in community organizing to study- and this book approaches it from the elegant language of sufficiency (as opposed to efficiency) as the measure. The author argues that efficiency was useful for single mechanical solutions, [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 2:12pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Save Society, not newspapers

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    UtneArticle [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by darnola

  • State of Sustainability 2009 | GreenCityBlueLake

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    Okay, I do NOT believe that we can cut and paste work from other cities (especially one in The Foundry Nation!) but this site is an excellent one to see how one can start to manage the information useful to a region. I must say, I am often impressed by [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 8:03am EDT
    by darnola

  • Too complex to exist - The Boston Globe

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    Too complex to exist - The Boston Globe

    Posted using ShareThis [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 5:29pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Holiday people

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    I really like July 4 weekend in the Quarter. Not only do we have relaxed summer people walking around (as opposed to those intense visitors who think they're supposed to drink to excess, throw up to excess and scream in excess since they are in the Quarter) we also get' [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 2:42pm EDT
    by darnola

  • The Nine Nations Review

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    The Nine Nations of North America The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau


    My review
    rating: 4 of 5 stars
    My boss gave me this book, as we are fascinated at marketumbrella.org by regional planning and [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Appropriate scale

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    "Growth for the sake of growth is the idealogy of the cancer cell." Edward Abbey [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 10:30pm EDT
    by darnola

  • A little Strain goes a long way...

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    Bought an inflatable kayak last month. I took it out to Boguefalaya on Sunday with friend Annie and paddled and floated for about an hour and 20 minutes. We got started late (like around 8:30-9) and after a peaceful first half hour or so, started to rack up the boat [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Blue collar mind

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    I have been thinking about blue collar minds in white collar worlds. Specifically how people who think in a "blue-collar" framework succeed in moving "up" the ladder and if they have to change their mindset to do that.
    I guess you can see that I view myself as a blue-collar [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Bigger isn't Better

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    By Peter A. Victor
    May 2009


    There's nothing like a good crisis to make us rethink old ideas. The
    depression of the 1930s led to the rejection of the prevailing idea that
    unemployment would right itself if only people would work for lower wages.
    Governments could do very [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 9:21am EDT
    by darnola

  • How to recycle bicycle rims in garden

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    wheels [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 12:51pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Are we winning?

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    solnit/The Nation [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 9:08am EDT
    by darnola

  • Complicated even before Katrina...

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    Filmed in mid-2005, this is a glimpse into life on the French Quarter's lower Decatur Street before Hurricane Katrina.

    Originally written by Ray Davies of the Kinks, this track is performed by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band featuring Clint Maedgen on vocals with a guest appearance by the New' [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
    by darnola

  • loss in poetic form (from Clara)

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    One Art



    The art of losing isn't hard to master;

    so many things seem filled with the intent

    to be lost that their loss is no disaster.


    Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

    of lost door keys, the hour badly' [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
    by darnola

  • news and lessons...

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    Sigh, It's time for me to tell...
    I am unable to build a new house.
    I have to give up this idea and realize what I can and should do next and what will work for me.
    The short version:
    Ironically,as a person who has spent her life (or' [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 9:53am EDT
    by darnola

  • welcome

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    I want to welcome Peter and Annie back to the city. They had to relocate after K and have spent much of that time in Asheville, vending as artists where they could. Peter is a native New Orleanian and has extended family here and Annie found herself here about a [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2009, 12:17pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Jane and JazzFest

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    In between searching for tickets to weekend to the Fairgrounds (thanks to my 3 friends who came through- you know who you are, and I bet you would rather not tell the world you sometimes have tickets at the last minute), I also led a Jane's Walk.
    Jane Jacobs, writer,' [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by darnola

  • From Fair Grinds Coffeehouse....

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    You may have already received info about this in our newsletter, but I think this group deserves a special notice to people sharing a concern for matters environmental. This discussion group has not been given a fair chance at a start, yet has so much potential.

    My recent garbage [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
    by darnola

  • News about solar..

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    From 1 BOG (Block Off the Grid)


    We've launched 1BOG in your neighborhood! We're meeting with installers next week to finish choosing the best one for everyone signed up in New Orleans. Through our careful selection process, we'll make sure that our 1BOG members are getting quality solar' [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 3:50pm EDT
    by darnola

  • King Creole

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    Another gorgeous weekend in New Orleans; does anyone know how amazing the weather is here from around Mardi Gras to late Jazz Fest?
    I biked to market, bought greens, carrots, strawberries (festival variety from Mendez family), olive bread from VooDough Bakery, HUGE broccoli from Perriloux family and had an iced [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Democratizing Finance

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    © InterPress Service
    and Hazel Henderson,
    www.hazelhenderson.com

    The financial meltdown generated by Wall Street and the ³too big to fail²
    culture of global money-center banks and financiers is generating local
    initiatives and demands to decentralize and democratize finance.

    Meanwhile, at the global level, the G-20 countries¹ demands [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 4:05pm EDT
    by darnola

  • The best and worst signs of spring

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    Blueberries are coming up in MidCity. M & V have toiled throughout the winter and early spring changing the pH of the soil to be able to grow blueberries. Four of these bushes are blooming along with their chard, onions, tomatoes, [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 6:37pm EDT
    by darnola

  • strawberry napoleons, mint juleps and recipes that work

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    We spent the last 3 days listening to rain coming in waves along with a lot of lightning and rolling thunder. Most came at night near daybreak and probably meant a lot of less than regular sleep patterns here.
    In the Quarter, I hear the [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Azaleas, cats and Clay

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    It has been a glorious weekend here. Weather is in the 70s, sunny-and the widely unknown news for folks outside of the city-humidity is not an issue over late fall, winter and early spring. Our spring may not be one of surprise like snow-covered areas, but it is lovely nonetheless. [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
    by darnola

  • ginger fish recipe

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    Sea Bream Surprise
    (Your guests will never guess)

    courtesy of Sarah Rath, Organizer of Food Corps of America

    Ingredients

    handful chopped shallots (or onion)
    handful minced ginger
    butter
    32 oz jar “good” sauerkraut, drained
    2 T sugar
    1 bay leaf
    1 c cream
    handful chopped pickled [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 12:17pm EDT
    by darnola

  • Do you Vieux?

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    I sit typing while in my courtyard under the neighbor's balcony, while the first real rain since before Mardi Gras falls on the plants. I know that because I still have chalk remnants of the Mardi Gras sign I put on the ground..
    I am about to get back to' [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 11:01am EDT
    by darnola

  • On the river rather than the bayou...

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    (V, M and R in my courtyard on Barkus Sunday)
    This starts my French Quarter journal, with pieces about the good, bad, ugly and splendid of this tiny village, written from my courtyard on Saint Ann (a street name which is almost always written out, when [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 2:33pm EST
    by darnola

  • Neighborhood fun

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    [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 10:32am EST
    by darnola
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