French Quarter After the Rain

After ten years of talking about it, my friend Donna and I finally made it to New Orleans last May, with husbands in tow. It seems a little spooky to us now. We’d dreamed about this trip for so long, but every year something got in the way. Finally, somehow, we decided that 2005 would be the year. What a good thing we did. New Orleans won’t be the same again for a long time, if ever. The four of us were so charmed by New Orleans, and we’re hardly alone in that. The people and the food and the…