Tag: new orleans

• Music: FACGCENOLA Blues

  

  A reflection on our July 2025 trip to the city that care forgot.

  abendelow

  July 24, 2025

  db’s music

  blues, Kyle, Mexican Sunflower, new orleans, NOLA, Unresolved chord

• Memoir: What came of a hunch (2020)

  

  “…one day in early November I awoke out of a dream with a premonition: ‘Give Ellie to your daughter Faith. She needs it.'”

  abendelow

  January 9, 2025

  memoir

  citroën, CR-V, deux cheveaux, divorced dad, faith, honda element, new orleans, transmission

• Fantasy drinking companion (2024)

  

  I feel emboldened. “Bob, one of your songs declares, ‘Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’. I just might tell you the truth.’ So I’m not gonna ask you nothin’ about nothin’. We’ll deal with whatever truth arises.”

  abendelow

  October 25, 2024

  Uncategorized

  art, Big Joe, bob dylan, bourbon, drinking, music, new orleans, Nina Simone, NOLA, t-shirts, Woody Guthrie

• Memoir: Mom’s racist heritage (1990)

  

  When I was 12, Mom had been pretty incapacitated for the last decade. We younger kids didn’t learn her prejudices until she got sober, her personality melting out of a frozen block of vodka.  Turns out, she harbored some downright racist ideas. She held un-generous feelings towards African-Americans, sorting them all into two camps–the uneducated,…

  abendelow

  April 6, 2024

  memoir

  alcoholism, CHA, chicago, civil rights, colgin, confederacy, Dr. Martin Luther King, new orleans, prejudice, racism, tulsa race massacre, US Civil War