Blog | onlyleslie504

May 30, 20205 min read

Love Affair with Coffee

I love everything about Coffee Our relationship with it, alone or shared, tells a lot about how we relate to and with each other. My...

May 27, 20206 min read

Who Bleached Jesus?

Why is it so hard for white people to confront the reality of racism? Is there some sort of cellular fear embedded in light skinned...

Apr 26, 20205 min read

New Orleans Jazz Fest 2020!! Live Report

Leslie here reporting in, coffee in hand live from the Crescent City. The last day of the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and...

Apr 17, 20204 min read

How Did We Function?

How did we manage? How did we function before cel phones and the plethora of other smart personal devises and virtual platforms we rely...

Apr 13, 20203 min read

Wild Wind-

Today the wind goes in every direction almost at once. It feels all anxious and undecided, unsettled. It doesn't feel angry or bent on...

Apr 2, 20202 min read

We're Stupid Like That..

` I don't know what's wrong with us, but local born New Orleanians have a strange relationship with being number one. It means a lot to...

Mar 30, 20203 min read

Putting My Stuff Up

In New Orleans we don't put things 'on' the table, bed, book shelf, counter or passenger seat- We don't put things 'behind' the door- in...

Mar 20, 20202 min read

In New Orleans..

I love New Orleans. I was born here, so that makes me lucky from the start. There is no other place I know of capable of creating such...

Mar 18, 20203 min read

Size Matters...

..and scope, and perception. The world is smaller- and way bigger and I love that I'm alive now, creating in this massively shifting,...

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