Tag Archives: New Orleans

The Mortician’s Gift

It’s time for the annual repost of the true story of my Halloween visit to the Westgate Gallery in New Orleans.  The story originally appeared in Morbid Curiosity magazine, then was reprinted in Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues. (I still … Continue reading

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New Orleans, I love you

My new travel essay went up on Scoutie Girl this week.  This time, I dragged my daughter off to one of my favorite places in New Orleans:  the Pharmacy Museum.  Where else can you learn about leeches, absinthe, folk medicine, … Continue reading

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Swamp Tour

We stepped out of the van into the heat.  The air was alive with the songs of insects:  cicadas, grasshoppers, flies whining through the air.  We covered our exposed flesh with bug spray as a woman hustled off the trail. … Continue reading

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