New Orleans assaults all senses including the sixth.
June 2024
New Orleans, Cajun/Creole cuisine, Jazz, voodoo, vampires and paddle steamers on the muddy Mississippi.
Cajun and Creole cuisine set fire to good intentions There is so much to see, experience and know in New Orleans. This bloglet is an expose of my, the strangers, ignorance- of cuisine, and of culture both apparent and occult. …
New Orleans, The Big Easy in the Garden District
Pelting rain and violent thunderstorms- taking it easy in steamy New Orleans
New Orleans, The Big Easy in the Garden District
We arrive at New Orleans, back into the humidity and the heat. The city is lush. It is scented with magnolia grandiflora trees. Resurrection ferns coat oak branches, verdant and strong, coaxed back into life by the downpours. Spanish moss drapes …
The Writers’ Retreat, Tennessee
A writers retreat in deepest Tennessee
The Writers’ Retreat, Tennessee
‘Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book’ laughs GS ‘Who said that?’ ‘Cicero- two thousand years ago!’ It’s true there are a lot of us writers about, or perhaps we are just drawn to each …
Sunshine and storms in Key West
Our literary tour starts…