Tag Archives: the past

One Book, One New Orleans, plus brass band love

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Carla

One Book, One New Orleans. It’s a cool month-long celebration in the city.  The idea is that everyone reads the same book and then attends awesome events, all in the name of adult literacy.  This year’s book is Nine Lives, … Continue reading →

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A story of two pools

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Carla

Back in 1928, a swimming pool was built at Audubon Park that was so big it could hold 25oo swimmers at a time, and there was a giant fountain in the middle that shot water 30 feet into the air!  … Continue reading →

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Story Saturdays – early memories in Italy

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Carla

I think one of the Post A Day prompts this week was about one’s earliest childhood memory, and this got me thinking about my childhood in Italy. I was super-little when we moved to Italy – about a year and … Continue reading →

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Story Saturdays: How I met my husband

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Carla

I had just finished my first year teaching in New Orleans. Sometime in the last month of the school year, the one teacher at my school who wasn’t a brand new teacher had thrust an application at me, saying, “You … Continue reading →

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Story Saturdays – How I got the Joy Diet

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Carla

This is a long story.  I don’t seem to know how to remove any of the details because they set the stage for my complete meltdown.  So here goes . . . It was June 2006.  That means it was … Continue reading →

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