Email: How did you fare through Rita? [BF]

Cajuns are a friendly and loving people, all right.

Hallelujah for Café du Monde's opening! That's one way to start getting back to normal.

I have yet to see New Orleans, but now I want to go there more than ever. It's like seeing all that Manhattan means to America after the 9/11 attacks (which I have yet to do also). I saw an A&E program on New Orleans and its vast contributions to music in America and the world; I was impressed.