New Orleans

The Woman Who Changed Her Men For Cats

Nov 17

Rip Van Delaney

Mar 14

Greek Gods, Ghost Towns, and a Coke Bottle Sky: Crossing America in Four Too-Swift Days

Feb 4

building the invisible structure

Jan 11

Time-Traveling Valentines

Jan 8

Go on singing.

Dec 11, 2022

Three nuns

Mar 2, 2022

Creativity is a defiant act.

Feb 27, 2022

Raskolnikov's Dream

Nov 9, 2020

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

Oct 31, 2020

Louisville: Ghosts of the Old Seelbach

Oct 24, 2020

Mothers, Don't Let your Daughters Grow into Miniaturists

Oct 19, 2020

Edna Ferber's Show Boat

Jul 29, 2020

Travels with Bandit

Jul 17, 2020

A Word

May 24, 2019

From the desk of Mina Bird

Jun 1, 2017

All Dolled Up Introduction: "The Magic in Old Clothes"

Feb 15, 2017

New Orleans: Olivier House

Apr 14, 2014

On the Subject of Ghosts

Mar 8, 2014

New Orleans: Saint Roch Chapel

Feb 15, 2014

New Orleans: "Jazz Funeral"

Jan 1, 2014

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

L. Delaney

Oct 31, 2020
7 min

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

My first home in New Orleans was the Olivier House, a 19th-century French Quarter mansion-turned hotel, whose 40+ rooms each deserve a...

Mothers, Don't Let your Daughters Grow into Miniaturists

L. Delaney

Oct 19, 2020
8 min

Mothers, Don't Let your Daughters Grow into Miniaturists

Writ through tears, October 2020 Dearest reader, hark and heed my tale of woe---the tale of a good girl turned miniaturist! As I sit...

L. Delaney

Jul 29, 2020
1 min

Edna Ferber's Show Boat

Since reading Edna Ferber’s novel, I’ve been enthralled by the history of showboats. From the 1880s to the 1920s, these floating theaters...

L. Delaney

Apr 14, 2014
1 min

New Orleans: Olivier House

In the French Quarter of New Orleans, there stands a grand old house. It defies the natural course of ruin by growing outward rather than...

L. Delaney

Feb 15, 2014
2 min

New Orleans: Saint Roch Chapel

In a city of weird cemeteries, St Roch is peculiar. Crowds of visitors make their way to nearby Lafayette and St. Louis No. 1, paying...

L. Delaney

Jan 1, 2014
4 min

New Orleans: "Jazz Funeral"

At the time of this happening, I was an even sillier person than I am today, who had come to expect certain things of people of a certain...