Reply #20: Holy cats! You lived in my old neighborhood! [View All]

[KamaAina]

I used to take the trolley every day from the end of the line at Carrolton/Claiborn

I lived three blocks riverside from there ('89-'91). I had a roommate who used to sell tamales out of a cart right in front of the grocery store at that corner (closed well before Katrina). Believe it or not, in a place that had so much political apathy, that was where I got radicalized; fell in with a bunch of wild wanton feminists :loveya:

Mom now chides me for "obsessing" over New Orleans. So what if I was only there two years? I was only at Yale for less than two years (transfer student), and that was a formative experience for me, too!