I may have said some of this before – but it bares (not naked bare – get your mind out of the gutter) repeating. The Northshore of Lake Pontchatrain is NOT – I repeat NOT the red-headed stepchild of New Orleans. We are part of the “Greater New Orleans Area.” All of us support and …

I am disgusted with Ramon the pool boy and my maid lately. Maybe they have found better opportunities (& if you don’t know that they are figments of my imagination- welcome new reader). As a matter of fact, last week I heard a statistic about the unemployment rate in St. Tammany Parish. It is at …

Don’t tell me about it….I’m so excited to go and it is better if I go not knowing anything about it. I was thinking of creative places to take the kids tomorrow (5 boys & 1 girl – 3 boys are visiting) -something not too expensive and not too far away. I remembered during my …

I have a folder on my desktop called “cool stuff for blogs.” Usually people send me stuff, but sometimes I surf for fun and find them. I was in Cafe Press, surfing for New Orleans stuff and came across this: And get this…it was designed by someone who calls themselves “The Anti-Northshore Alliance.” Puhleeze! I …

I recently met Milena Merrill in person. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, it should. Milena is the Northshore NOLA.com blog coordinator and master of EVERYTHING she touches, a remarkable woman. She shared her Katrina story with me, and as usual, my chin just dropped. But, her “it is what it is” attitude and …

My stockbroker (my cousin), calls me whenever the market plummets and says, “Everything is on sale Greta…buy now.” If you were house shopping on the Northshore anytime in 2006 (like yours truly), you noticed houses waaaaaay overpriced. I just sold my home in Oklahoma for $77 a square foot & I was shopping for houses …