Jen L

Yes! And the staff was still playing music from WW2 when my mom was a toddler

when Momma moved into her senior apartment, she asked them why they were playing old people music. They were still playing things her mother would have enjoyed. Mom asked for some 1950s New Orleans R&B.

Louisiana took months to sound alarm after two babies died in whooping cough outbreak By Rosemary Westwood, WWNO When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That’s standard practice, public health and infectious disease experts told KFF Health News and NPR. The goal is to keep as many other vulnerable people as possible from getting sick and to remind the public about the benefits of vaccinations. But in Louisiana this year, public health officials appeared to have not followed that playbook during the state’s worst whooping cough outbreak in 35 years.

Louisiana took months to sound alarm after two babies died in whooping cough outbreak

By Rosemary Westwood, WWNO When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat.…

Momma felt well enough to go out last night for bro3's birthday. Modern medicine is a miracle

Use your inside voice!

I just said ok since it has already been a very stressful day

Now that I can stop and catch my breath... This month has been a lot. Good news is Mom is recovering and her spirits are good. Funny news is that the 21 year old niece tried to lecture me on how to use social media.

The Get Down Interview: Crime Data Analyst Jeff Asher

I sat down with data wiz @jeffasher.bsky.social to talk about how and why people think about crime in New Orleans, particularly the disconnect between what’s really happening and the fear a lot of people have. Here’s the Spotify link

spotify.link/vht6neGMsXb

I tried to flipma June bug out of my hand but but it was a wasp and it stung me on my fingertip

Hmmm @jesslarmstrong.bsky.social has been posting ideas on her insta. I'm going to try to get through Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans

Today is my work anniversary too. Thank you for your continued service.

Gotta love the digitized NOMSJ!

from a 1941 medical article about events from 1840...
"Mississippi had at this time annulled its laws regulating medical
practice and in another report, Dr. Cartwright by statistical analysis shows the resulting enormous increase in mortality."
Everything old is new again!

Somebody said faith Ford but she's 25 years older so they all look like her

Umm Margot Robbie and Jamie Presley and Emma Mackey. They are clones

If I was under 10 nothing because that car didn't have a radio

Hey @skookses.bsky.social - I thought of you yesterday because I used the phrase #Standing and it was even Katrina related. All these years later...
#RisingTide

Hey we have that photo hanging in my library too... in the staff area

What To Do About Crime's Persistent Perception Problem? A new-ish poll and some ideas for the future.

New this week: I wrote about how people seem to always perceive that crime is rising -- a problem that goes back at least a century -- and what I'm hoping to do about it. Check it out!

jasher.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

It's a hard time of year. May I suggest the fluffiest of novels? I find reading brain candy the brat escape. I read 4 novels this week because that's where my head is

20 years ago

Statue honoring the Latin American workers who helped rebuild our city after Hurricane Katrina.

THIS MONUMENT IS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATIN AMERICAN WORKERS WHO HELPED TO REBUILD THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA AUGUST 29T1, 2005 GIFT OF JUAN JORGE GERSHANIK AND FAMILY

Lest we forget how we have come so far in 20 years.

Things that I did not have 20 years ago
* A cell phone that texted
* A digital camera
* A clue about what was about to happen

What I did have
* An online Nola community - RIP NOLA LJ
* Defiance

In the longest of last minute long shots; does anyone going to Big in the 90s/That’s So Fetch own an old Razr or Sidekick?

Happy happy birthday!

Oh dear. Hope all is well

Near Powers. My typos are undefeated

I don't think I could remotely do this. I'm working on some Katrina projects at work and that's enough emotional cutting for me you're stronger than I am @skookses.bsky.social

Tonight I decided that @champsuperstar.bsky.social is a New Orleans angel which is a very special subsection in the hierarchy of angels. I will consult my experts to decide exactly where. But I'm thinking middle hierarchy. Maybe meat Powers