This will be my final posting of the 2016 Lenten season. I wrote a bit about Lent at the start of it, Ash Wednesday, a few weeks… Read more “Springtime in NOLA”
Author: Anne McClane
Anne McClane is a New Orleans native who spent sixteen years out west before finding her way home to embrace the mysteries of the Mississippi River Delta. She has many years experience in publicity, public relations, and marketing, which has provided a fine primer for writing about the speculative, abnormal, and outrageous.
To Believe in Belief
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to believe in love, it is to believe in loveliness, it is to believe in belief. In… Read more “To Believe in Belief”
A Kind Act in a Weary World
1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is one of those movies that’s imprinted in my DNA. As a child, I watched it countless times. It must… Read more “A Kind Act in a Weary World”
Writing and Running
Almost sixteen years ago to the day, in early March 2000, I ran my first marathon. It was grueling and painful. It was in pre-drought Los Angeles,… Read more “Writing and Running”
Brothers: A Gungan Pollutes the Wild
This is the second in a series of “Family” posts. For the first, click here A few weeks ago, I wrote about William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a… Read more “Brothers: A Gungan Pollutes the Wild”
Finished, or Abandoned?
There’s a quote that the Internet tells me is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Now, it feels pretty pretentious to call… Read more “Finished, or Abandoned?”
Forty Days
“We can’t eat this bird.” “What? Oh God, is it Lent again already?” Matthew Broderick as Phillipe and Leo McKern as Imperius in Ladyhawke Today is Ash… Read more “Forty Days”
My Kind of Mardi Gras
This past weekend I marched, for the second time, with the Leijorettes. The Leijorettes are a Mardi Gras marching krewe honoring Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan. We… Read more “My Kind of Mardi Gras”
Wordsworth vs. the Baby Monkey
The world has gone insane And you don’t know what is right You got to keep on keeping on So get on that pig and hold on tight… Read more “Wordsworth vs. the Baby Monkey”
Notching a Decade
As of today, Tim and I have been married for ten years. A lot can happen, and can happen to a person, in that time span. I’ve… Read more “Notching a Decade”
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