Someone looked at the house in New Orleans today. The realtor said she is very interested. She is going to have her boyfriend come and see it. We can't say how much we want that house sold. It would be such a relief. I'm afraid to get my hopes up, but then again, they are up already. When Ethan heard about it he said, "It's 70% sold already." I ( Read more... )

( This is really exactly what the title says it is: an update on some completely random things in my/our life/lives. )

I avoided the net yesterday except for NOLA. I didn't want to read accounts or thoughts or accusations by people who weren't there. A year ago yesterday, we were in Montgomery, Alabama. We didn't watch tv. We didn't listen to the radio. Honestly, I don't remember a lot of the day ( Read more... )

Krewe du Viuex is one of my two favorite Mardi Gras krewes. They always roll well before the tourists arrive in town, and they always skewer the local political scene. This year is no different except that for the first time since 1992 I won't see them roll. I did get the preview from Deep Float aka Angus Lind a local columnist who writes for the ( Read more... )

Drummer Dinerral Shavers of the Hot 8 Brass Band was shot and killed just after Christmas while driving with his wife and child in New Orleans. Jealina Brown was killed in her Uptown home on Friday. One day earlier Helen Hill was killed in her Rampart Street home (which is just a few blocks from where we used to live). All in all 161 people were ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what I should be writing here. There are a thousand emotions and none of them quite capture what I've been feeling today. A year ago, a year ago today, we were in Montgomery, Alabama. The hotel was clean and nice and very southern. It had a sweeping staircase and a front porch with rocking chairs. I have no clue what the name of it was ( Read more... )

What I want to write is an update. What I have the energy to write is a "We're still alive. You?" post. We've been in New Hampshire with Kim and then had several bead shows strung together to make an 11-day trip. Now we're back in New England. We've been ripping up carpets and tearing off old wallpaper in preparation for painting. We had most of ( Read more... )

I should have something to write. I fill up pages in the paper journal lately and get intimidated when I try to write here. It used to be the reverse. Maybe I'm afraid I'll sound silly or something. I don't know ( Read more... )

I saw this photo in the Times-Picayune the day St. Louis Cathedral School re-opened and I had to have it as a user pic. I don't know who the nun the foreground is, but the guy in the background is Alfred C. Hughes, the Archbishop of New Orleans. For the record, I hear he sucks at basketball. The verdict is still out on the nun.

-Sarah

I was going to write an update (as if I could just conveniently update the last 4 months of our lives), but I just couldn't get it down to less than 30 pages. As I was trying to do that, I was looking through the paper journal and found an entry I wrote while we were in New Orleans in February ( Read more... )