NEW ORLEANS - On any given weekend, my friend Mark Schleifstein can be found mowing the lawn in front of his ruined and gutted home in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. Even now, a year later, the brown ring around his yellow split-level still shows where the flood waters...
0 Comments | Posted January 23, 2006 | 7:28 PM
Part of the gospel of post-Katrina New Orleans is that when you go there, you will cry. "Plan to cry," my friend wrote to me. "Everybody cries."
People who know me as a reporter and editor might bet that I'd get out of there dry-eyed. And I almost did.
On...
0 Comments | Posted August 28, 2006 | 1:39 PM