Four months. I moved back to New Orleans on June 1st of this year after nine months of diaspora. You don’t know about the destruction here until you see it with your own eyes, and you don’t really even know much then unless you were here in the months immediately following Hurricane Katrina. [...]

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It’s about thirteen minutes into Thursday, as my clock reads. Tuesday was a special day. I’ll let you decide how to emphasize the word special. My school held a big rally and we all went out into the city to do things. Some people gutted homes, others fixed roofs, and my [...]

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David Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church New Orleans, preached in chapel the other day, and wrote this op-ed piece in the Times-Picayune. Joe McKeever has the whole thing posted on his blog. Read it there, but here’s an excerpt (emphasis added).
This list is crafted to help family members and friends avoid blunders [...]

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