Leah Chase & Charlotte at Dooky Chase ~ Photo by Anita Mital
Last Holy Thursday I met up with a great group of friends (and met some new ones! ) at Dooky Chase for some delicious fried chicken and the traditional Gumbo Z’Herbs. It was a great time and the powdered sugar on the beignet was meeting Ms Leah, something I’d always wanted to do. What a gracious lady she is and one of New Orleans irreplaceable treasures!
I would like to take the opportunity to wish NOLAFEMMES’ founder Charlotte Hamrick a Happy Mother’s Day.
I think of you as a “mother” to all of us who post on this blog: you remind us to use tags, encourage us to post, you raise us up and you celebrate when we achieve “Freshly Pressed”.
Thank you for inviting me to post here and for your advice and support over the past 2 years. I would also like to wish all of NOLAFEMMES’ other bloggers a wonderful Mother’s Day.
May 8
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Seven years ago, when Ally Boyd relocated to New Orleans from Austin, she considered herself crafty mom, but not an artist. While wandering around the city during homeschool excursions with her children, she found items left behind as litter: the arm of a doll, an old glass bottle, screws, bottle caps, and wood. She collected […]
May 1
I’m fat. I don’t type those words as some declaration of self-empowerment like “I’m fat, dammit, and get used to it because I love me, faults and all!” I type those words with quite a lot of sadness. Those two words are two of the hardest words to come to terms with when dealing with […]
Apr 5
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I cannot lie. I teared up Thursday evening during the “Good-bye” broadcast of Angela Hill’s last day on WWL TV. When I moved to New Orleans in 1978, Angela (and Garland Robinette) were THE faces of New Orleans for me. I was so excited to be beginning a new life in such an exciting and […]
Mar 30
Dear Senator Landrieu, How wonderful that we elected you, our progressive option in the Louisiana electoral, to represent us! A question: Is your goal to promote the notion of the people of Louisiana as under-educated, unenlightened swampers who have such a limited capacity for morality and human rights that we are only able to parrot […]
Mar 20
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Forty years after her election, Lindy Boggs’ leadership and grace are still inspiring via Senator Mary Landrieu on NOLA.com We couldn’t agree more!
Mar 19
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For the past year my partner Micah and I have been working on creating a new conceptual magazine called Momma Tried. Both long term New Orleanians (he was born in Opelousas LA, I moved here in 1998), our vision is to bring together a print-only publication that is equal parts literary journal, art magazine, and […]
Mar 12
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Everything managed to align perfectly. The little guy did his homework in time for us to go (it helped to bribe him with a special something from the shop if he finished), I found a seat in time for the reading, and away we went… Though I missed recording Octavia Books co-owner Tom Lowenburg’s noting […]
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