June 13, 2012
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June 10, 2012
Yesterday was a very New Orleans day. I’m totally a local now: I went running down the St. Charles streetcar tracks, because the sidewalk are for tourists, obvi. It was kind of fun dodging streetcars and seeing the half-buried mardi gras beads embedded in the dirt path. There was a heavy cloud cover and the humidity was oppressive until it finally rained, which was really refreshing.
June 8, 2012
I’ve been living without a pause the past few days so I haven’t even had a chance to type up a blog post.
June 7, 2012
The title of this blog post is based on an old New Orleans expression, “making groceries,” which is another way of saying grocery shopping. I’m starting to see how, at the market, people make friends while they make groceries. Just another way that the market facilitates those connections and on a bigger scale, a sense of community.
June 4, 2012
I met one of our neighbors this morning as I was coming in from my run. I said, “Hi, I’m Caroline. I just moved in here and I’ll be here all summer.” She said, “Are you from North Carolina?” She recognized my accent just from those few words! I learned that she’s from Boone. I also met her dog Molly, who looks like this: http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/images/breeds/oldenglishsheepdog12.jpg.