According to The Times-Picayune weather frognosticator, temperatures are going to reach a high of 89 here on Friday, which means that summer -- delayed last week by overcast skies and rain -- will hit us with a thump. [...]

On a morning in 1962,  I stood on the neutral ground on St. Charles at Louisiana, infant daughter in my arms, and watched President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade pass by. Laughing and with thick, reddish-brown hair blowing in [...]

One of the things I love about my neighborhood is that we have a lot of elders who call Treme home. They watch over us. Like my almost senior neighbor who went after two kids trying to hoist [...]

About 30 years ago, in Houston for a convention with my husband, I invited an old college roommate who lived in a small town nearby to join me for lunch at our hotel. We made catch-up chat for [...]

Alongside far too many things like Christmas card photos of friends, once-interesting  newspaper clippings, and outdated notices of doctors’ appointments, our refrigerator door is adorned with a 2½- by 3-inch magnet bearing the words “Major electric appliance heal [...]

In the slang of my generation, “having a ball” is having the best of all possible times. It translates not to getting dressed up in formal clothes and going dancing, but to huge enjoyment anywhere: “I had a [...]