https://www.myneworleans.com Dining, Entertainment, Homes, Lifestyle and all things NOLA Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://assets.myneworleans.com/2021/10/cropped-favicon-transparent-1-32x32.png https://www.myneworleans.com 32 32 https://www.myneworleans.com/angel-food-cake-with-the-angels/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:52:26 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=148031 In a food processor or blender, pulse the sugar until fine and powdery. Remove 1 cup and set aside to use in step 3; keep the rest inside the food processor. Add the cake flour and salt to the food processor. Pulse 5-10 times until sugar/flour/salt mixture is aerated and light. Mostly, I love baking. […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/18-years-after-katrina/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:04:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=147767 Eighteen years? OK. If you say so. I can do basic math, so yeah, it all checks out. And I remember holding my college roommate’s baby the night before Hurricane Katrina, in awe that someone my age had created a brand-new human, and my former roommate just posted a picture of this no-longer-quite-so-brand-new human in […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/walking-through-grief/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:00:59 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=147200 I’ve always been … not comfortable with grief, exactly, but accepting of it. In my 42 years, I’ve lost close friends, both siblings, beloved pets, a desperately wanted pregnancy in the second trimester, and my mother.  I know the drill by now; I know that when grief wants to come in, you just have to […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/summer-not-lovin/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:08:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=146797 I have gone on record, multiple times, as stating that I “love summer.” But as I sit here today in early August, with my back soaked in sweat just from driving home from work and a crushingly overwhelming to-do list as both a parent and a person who works at a school, I have a […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/getting-the-fam-back-together/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:40:18 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=146510 After a whirlwind week, a few fun child-free days, and almost a full day (21 hours) of driving, our family (minus my stepson, who at 22 doesn’t live at home anymore) is all back under one roof!  Monday night, after Georgia left for camp, I was completely bereft, but my husband, after letting me get […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/the-thing-about-having-two-kids/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=145157 The thing about having two kids is this: I guess I foolishly thought maybe sending a kid off to sleepaway camp would be easier this time around, since I have already lived through it with my older one and knew what to expect, sort of, but it really isn’t. If anything, it’s harder. Because (see […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/packing-in-the-love-for-summer-camp/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:05:18 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=144581 It’s been long enough now – more than two years, somehow, unbelievably – that I don’t miss my mom every second of every day.  I go full days without thinking of her and full weeks without openly sobbing.  It’s progress. But, because I loved her so much for so long, I still have moments that […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/pov-sleepaway-camp/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:34:15 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=144380 Hi, I’m Georgia. You maybe hear about me in a lot of my mom’s stories. Today, I am helping her write from my own point of view. So listen up.  From my point of view, going away to sleep away camp, I know my mom has already sent one of her kids to sleep away […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/summertime-and/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=143591 The ongoing “heat emergency” has sort of put a damper on my summer plans. Not, I guess, that I really had any hard and fast plans in the first place.  My hope was for Georgia to have something sort of resembling my own summers in the ’80s and ’90s, which were mostly characterized by benign […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/the-more-people-who-stand-up-against-bigotry-the-better/ Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:14:16 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=143050 I support journalism. I have paid subscriptions to the local newspaper, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. I went to journalism school and got two degrees. There’s not much I take more seriously than the right to a free press.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t criticize the media, too.  And that’s exactly […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/summers-apart/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=142722 Just like Christmases, the summers without my older daughter are routine now … but still not fun.  Between summer camp and the custody arrangement that gives me the school year and her dad the summer, I have made my peace with not really seeing my kid except over FaceTime in June and July.  But it’s […]]]> https://www.myneworleans.com/welcome-to-the-tween-years-again/ Tue, 30 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.myneworleans.com/?p=141755 My baby – who is very much not a baby anymore – turns 11 today.  It’s such a weird age, one I remember well from my older daughter, five years earlier.  At 11, she has one foot in each of two worlds, one firmly planted and one much more tentative, testing the ground to see […]]]>