New Orleans: Proud to work from home

One of the privileges of living in post-Katrina New Orleans is that there are plenty of opportunities to marvel at the accomplishments of your friends who are busily working away in their various trenches -- in the new charter school system, maybe, or in a re-imagined kitchen in an old restaurant, or in their own recently bought/repaired/rebuilt home, sitting in front of a blank computer screen attempting to make some sense of the chaos.

Last week, three of the hardest-working sense-seekers I know published stories that made me especially proud to live in the same town with them. They're all well worth checking out:

Billy Sothern's book Down in New Orleans

Brett Anderson's series on Mandina's in the Times-Picayune.

and

Katy Reckdahl's piece for the American Radio Works' "Routes to Recovery" series.