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Mardi Gras Memories: Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!

March 4, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsFrench Quarter, Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Mardi Gras 2014, New Orleans, Travel, Wanderland Writers

1995-02-05 04:00:00 PDT NEW ORLEANS — PINOCCHIO zooms by on roller skates, thin, hairy legs protruding from green lederhosen. Three Elvises swival past, hips rotating like long-playing records. A besequined, masked stranger raises his wine glass and blows me a kiss. Scandalous. Ridiculous. Crazy. Taboo. It’s Fat Tuesday –Mardi Gras, the most delightfully wicked time of…

Embracing Fat Tuesday

February 21, 2012Linda Watanabe McFerrin2 commentsContributing Editor, Food, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, New Orleans, Travel, Workshop, Writers

Embracing Fat Tuesday ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin NEW ORLEANS — PINOCCHIO zooms by on roller skates, thin, hairy legs protruding from green lederhosen. Three Elvises swivel past, hips rotating like long-playing records. A besequined, masked stranger raises his wine glass and blows me a kiss. Scandalous. Ridiculous. Crazy. Taboo. It’s Fat Tuesday – Mardi Gras, the…

New Orleans: The City that Care Forgot

November 28, 2010Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsDead Love, Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Competition, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, New Orleans, South, Travel, Voodoo Museum, Workshop, Writers, Zombies

Laissez les bons temps rouler! And we certainly did at Words and Music 2010 in New Orleans in spite of the fact that the theme was “The Literature of War and Collateral Damage,” or maybe because of it and because “When faced with disaster, the best medicine is laughter” … yes, that’s a direct quote…

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