New Orleans. It's a great place to live. Even though I was there right after Katrina, it still had heart. The people still had joy and ...

You have already seen my Where I Live series. You may or may not know that I travel a lot for work and so therefore have lived in some int...

If you ever go to New Orleans, I suggest straying away from the beaten (aka BOURBON St) path and going to see some of the better parts of t...

I took a photo drive around the 9th ward the other day. I know most people think that New Orleans is "back to normal", but it is n...

I am almost done. I should finish tonight. However, I am not quite sure that I like the way he writes. I feel like I should becuase he is &q...

The Waldorf Astoria opened a new hotel in New Orleans this month. The Roosevelt Hotel , "Originally one of the South’s first grand hot...

...makes Jack a dull boy, right? It also makes me a sleep deprived grandmother. Yeah, I have always been kind of a grandma; I am the one wh...

How quickly we forget how difficult it is to go back to exercising after a break. So I am supposed to be training for the NYC Half. Ha! I w...

Tomorrow, Saturday May 12th, at 8:30 a.m. I will be standing in a group of people, getting ready to run. This is a small run; we can't...

A while ago I wrote about the funny nicknames we give the old guys at work. This is an update to that blog... I am still in the same office...

Yeah. It is that time of the year again. Jazzfest . This is a 6 day event (starting this Friday) that we attend in order to see hundreds o...

When I got in the pool, I was not sure what I was doing. I have swum before. I can swim. But I had no idea how far or how long I could swim...

I feel like I should have a lot to say, but I don't. I have actually been so busy that I cannot think about anything other than my next...

I had a really good video from St. Pat's, but I can't get it to load on here for some reason. Youtube hates me. So... Here are a...

I stepped in dog poop twice today. Twice in one day, what are the odds of that? Both times I was wearing my sneakers and of course the poop...

So I ran the half marathon. Now what? For the last twelve weeks I have had a goal, a so called "light at the end of the tunnel". N...

Its over. We are done. We finished in just over two hours, which was my goal. We didnt quite make it as fast as I wanted, but we were onl...

Countdown until the race is almost over. 2 days left....Yikes! Today we are going to take one last short run. The weather outside is be...

Parades! Beads! Booze! Boobs! Costumes! Birthday Suits! Kids! Toys! Boys! Yes there is a little bit of everything here in New Orleans dur...

…And it keeps getting easier. Last Friday, we ran 11 miles. The week before that, we ran 10 miles. After that 13 is just another drop in th...