Oct 14, 2014 | A Day In My Life
It was Halloween in New Orleans. A week-long, rabble rousing celebration that grew bigger, badder, and crazier every year. A time for would-be werewolves, witches, and zombies to throw on a wig, howl at the moon, and paint the town the bright red color of fake vampire...
Mar 14, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop I’ve never been a wine connoisseur, since tea is my forte – fragrant Darjeelings, malty Assams, and my current favorite, a house-blended orchid plum tea. On the other hand, I’m enjoying myself here at Knighthall Winery’s rather...
Jan 13, 2014 | A Day In My Life
So there I was, churning up the hill toward Memorial Cemetery, the wrought-iron gates looming up through swirling fog like disapproving sentinels. My BFF Toni was riding shotgun, while stuffed in the back seat were four enormous baskets of flowers. Somehow, we’d been...
Oct 11, 2013 | A Day In My Life
It wasn’t that Carmela didn’t like Mardi Gras. Heck, she liked it just fine. She lived in New Orleans after all. And her scrapbook shop, Memory Mine, was located square in the middle of the French Quarter. And when those monster-sized floats came rumbling down the...