It’s Mardi Gras time in Louisiana, so on this week’s show, we’re bringing Carnival to you. We begin with author and songwriter Johnette Downing, who’s also known as “the pied piper of Louisiana music traditions.” Johnette shares her latest album, Swamp Romp, which, among other things, seeks to answer the eternal question, Who put the…
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The women’s movement has been striving to define the place of women in the workplace, and in society in general, since the 1960’s. Although there have been some major turning points over the past half century, the era we’re in now may turn out to be one of the most significant and long lasting. In…
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There was a time in New Orleans, that if you told someone you were moving into your new office, it was probably in Houston. Or Atlanta. In the 1990’s, whole office buildings in New Orleans were empty. Leasing companies were in a reverse-bidding war – under-selling each other to attract tenants. A significant number of…
Read MoreYou may not be consciously aware of it, but you’re constantly making decisions. Many of these decisions are in the service of sorting out the truth of what’s going on around you. Starting with deciding it’s time to get up in the morning, till you decide it’s time to go to bed at night, you’re making…
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