Zydeco and Tomato Festival...

We celebrate everything in New Orleans

Zydeco music, fried green tomatoes, street dancing, and colorful people.... Mais, that's where it's at, Darlin'

One of my former students, Randy Brien, and I were photographed while dancing the Cajun 2 step Saturday. The Times Picayune photographer asked for the spelling of our names. We dance a lot together.  Dancing is acceptable here for any event. 

And we are good dancers, too! 

The following is an excerpt from my book, Recipes for Recovery:

       Randy Brien, the French named mispronounced in New Orleans to sound like Brian, has been a friend, colleague, and a former student since 1972 when we met in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, near Bayou Blue. Randy: intelligent, handsome, articulate, witty Student Council President was a one man “Keep the brand new school clean,” advocate. He had established a secret committee composed of school leaders and athletes to patrol the hallways and bathrooms of H.L. Bourgeois High School. The school had been constructed on the site of a former Homas Indian Reservation, and oddly named after a former superintendent of schools. Randy’s unofficial, Bust Ass Committee was a mystery to the faculty and staff until the Class of 1976’s Ten Year Reunion, when committee members identified themselves and told us they had taken the matter of the punctured and missing ceiling tiles into their own hands, and that very little “ass busting” was necessary. After one or two “Come to Jesus” Meetings the tiles that were replaced remained pristine.

I am very fortunate to have made a friend of a former student.