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Reader’s Post Suggestion #1- New Orleans Voodoo

Preface: Last week I did a post asking my readers for suggestions on anything they wanted me to write about. I received some great suggestions and it is difficult to … Continue reading

June 2, 2013 · 23 Comments

How to interrupt a Japanese film crew to photograph some shoes

On one of my evening walks along this New Orleans river bank, I saw a small crowd gathered around an elderly gentlemen furiously playing a drum. Sites of people playing … Continue reading

May 1, 2013 · 35 Comments

Full circle by the river

The sun is starting to set as I sit here on banks of the Mississippi River. A light breeze blows and the walking path behind me shows the occasional runner, … Continue reading

April 26, 2013 · 43 Comments

Just a quickie post to say hello and you are not forgotten

My apologies to all of my blogging friends for not reading/commenting on your posts for the past week. I just returned from another trip to my most favorite city, New … Continue reading

April 25, 2013 · 26 Comments

love is love-happy heart day

  boy kisses boy, girl kisses girl, boy kisses girl, black kisses white.. love is love… happy hearts day everyone!!!  

February 14, 2013 · 27 Comments

Happy Mardis Gras New Orleans!!!

Although parades, parties and such started last week, today is the actual celebratory date. I could not be there this year because I am going in a month to secure … Continue reading

February 12, 2013 · 29 Comments

I like to hang with good company

Some of you may know that I write poetry and also founded a non-profit poetry organization, take-it-to-the-streets. To be honest, I only wrote my first poem around four years ago … Continue reading

December 12, 2012 · 44 Comments

What would be your message to the world ?

If you could send one message to someone or about something you care about, what would it be? Robert X. Fogarty asked that question after Hurricane Katrina. The project began … Continue reading

November 29, 2012 · 31 Comments

Photography 101

I have recently taken an indefinite break from publishing poetry over at take-it-to-the-street-poetry and decided I want a new hobby. Nothing that will take me a zillion hours to learn … Continue reading

November 26, 2012 · 33 Comments

What’s Your Life Manifesto?

No matter where you may be, if you are connected to the internet you have seen the above picture. That picture is called the “Holstee Manifesto” created by two brothers … Continue reading

November 20, 2012 · 54 Comments
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