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On June 17th, a new fiction book begins on WRBH.  The title is THE OBJECTS OF MY AFFECTION, Jill Smolinski wrote it, the wonderful Allison Freeman reads it, and Amazon describes it this way:In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff […]

Love Story, by Shawn'drea PierreThe feeling's mutualyou know I feel the sameas I smile when I hear your namewhen you touch my skin my toes crawljust remember me, like I remember you.Just remember we start as friends,just me and you.   I have a friend who used to say she had the perfect title for a country song : "I'm Savin' My Tears for the Teenage Years."  At the time, we both […]

How many of you remember reading those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books when you were a kid?  Or, if you're a little older, like I am, you remember reading them to your children, or buying them at Maple Street Children's Bookshop as easy gifts for birthdays or holidays.  The premise was simple, but brilliant: two scenarios were set up at the beginning, and depending on which one you chose to […]

     Wednesday mornings, for me, are usually pretty hectic.  I'm not an early morning person, and knowing I have to be at WRBH for 6:45 to be half of the live newspaper reading team on that day means I usually have to set the alarm for 5:45, and sometimes, depending on traffic, snooze buttons, and how tired I am, an hour isn't quite enough time to get there before the […]

Another blog post on appreciation?  Didn't I just write about this?  Sure, but there's more to report--last Friday, April 19th, was the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, and the day was filled with all sorts of things we are always happy to have, like good food, lovely music, and  rooms full of interesting people.  There was even a prescient sign sent by the universe (or was it Confucius?) to let us know […]

Once in a while, there seems to a a series of events or encounters that sparks a theme or causes a thought to resonate through your daily life.  At first you think it's all coincidental, but then it slowly starts to dawn on you that there may be something more going on, something you need to pay attention to.  That's how it was for me last week--the universe was sending […]

Last week's blog post was about John Kennedy Toole and the nonfiction book currently airing on WRBH called BUTTERFLY IN THE TYPEWRITER, written by Cory McLauchlin and read (with great respect and grace) by Peter Spera.  In that post, I commented on how many people in New Orleans and beyond feel connected in some way to the book or to the story or the life of Mr. Toole.  Some of […]

I'm sure this has happened to everyone at one time or another--you're in the airport, or visiting another city, and when you strike up a conversation with a stranger and mention being from New Orleans they immediately say, "Oh, do you know insert name here?" and you not only know them, they live down the street, or your brother dated them, or they are your second cousin once removed, or […]

I'm going to hypnotize you now.Don't worry, I'm not going to make you focus on a spinning image or force you to stare at my pendulum-like pocket watch while I murmur "You're getting veeeerrryyyy sleepy" over and over.  No, this is going to be a wonderfully pleasant and enjoyable experience, with no potential side effects like embarrassing yourself in front of others when I say the secret word (unless that […]