Snippets of New Orleans Book pride and the one who MUST

and the one who MUST succeed at all costs

and gold accents

while internally

You were my cup of tea

I'm a size Saturday night babysitter

Snippets of New Orleans Book pride and the one who MUSTSnippets are fragments of things. They are people observed, foods consumed, ornaments spotted: a man on a streetcar, crawfish shells on the sidewalk, an ornate cornstalk shaped fence. This book is my most earnest and honest reflection of New Orleans: triumphant and tragic, gaudy and gritty, elegant and ugly, rich and poor, a city that embodies all these and other polar opposites with a perverse kind of grace. My account is flawed and incomplete in the