Discovering New Orleans
As many of you who read my blog, including those of you who read the lost episodes, notice that I have changed my style quite a bit. When I started out, blogging was a crutch to help me deal with the stress and trauma of seeing my home town almost completely destroyed. I used it as my own personal soap box to let the world know how I was feeling as well as to get it off my chest. At some point in the last year the post traumatic stress wore off, I was considering leaving town.
After the storm I have had a number of friends come to town, many of them lived here but had left long before Katrina. I have played tour guide quite a bit, in the process I have started to appreciate what New Orleans has to offer and discovered the reasons that I live here. There are many Hurricane victims who want to return, and I come across many people who lived here long ago who are longing to return. It is harder than one might think, housing, insurance, and good jobs are all factors that play a role in peoples’ ability to return. I can truly say that I feel fortunate when I wake up every morning that I am waking up in New Orleans, the city that I grew up in.
