The Big Easy: Here's to Her

I have to take a moment and give it up for N'awlins, that gorgeous, mysterious underwater city where I spent probably the single most important year of my life. It's a magical place, filled with spirits you can feel but not see, and though the images of Katrina's devastation are pretty hard to look at, it could have been a lot worse. I am not surprised to know that folks began celebrating their survival only moments after she rolled out of town.

Here's hoping power is restored soon to N.O. and all of her neighbors along the Gulf Coast, and that any further loss of life can be avoided.

If I was there right now, I suspect I would be popping open an Abita Amber and watching the neighbors paddle by in their pirogue (that's Cajun for "canoe.")