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on April 27, 2011

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The VooDoo Museum in New Orleans French Quarter

NOLA Series: A Visit to the VooDoo Museum
It's teeny tiny and tucked away but it's rich with history and intrigue. The VooDoo Museum is just a few rooms on Dumaine St in the French Quarter, but there's a lot to see in all the nooks and crannies from ceiling to floor. I recommend it as a unique New Orleanian attraction.

I don't know exactly how I heard about the VooDoo Museum. A few guidebooks do mention it. I did not go in as someone spooked by voodoo, though. It was 2013, and I was just settling into realizing I was a neopagan--a solo practitioner, pantheist, hearth/eclectic who observed the Celtic pagan holidays, to be exact, now.

When you first walk in, the person at the front desk may have a large snake around them. That was the case for me. I think the guy wanted to shock me. But I'm a snake person. Heck, I'm going to the VooDoo Museum, you know?

Anyway, you give your admission and then you can walk through the rooms. Though it is small, it is packed fro…

The Purpose of the Anti-Abortion Laws Is to Control Others, Not Preserve Life

Abortion Rights and the Threat to Liberty
The threats to Roe v Wade in the laws enacted by states like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and Missouri are not just about the freedom to have a safe, legal abortion. This right is, of course, essential in a free society. However, equally important is that the threat to this particular liberty is emblematic of the threats to all liberty, for all people, whether they need access to an abortion or not. And every person who works against that liberty, works against the principle of Liberty itself.
Attempts to erode what was codified into law for the country by Roe v Wade are attempts to impede and impose upon your freedom. Whoever you are, whatever your reproductive capabilities. This *is* a "woman's issue" but it is an issue for everyone, too, on multiple levels. If you're not capable of carrying a fetus to term, these laws still effect you, whether it's that your partner seeks an abortion because you're not ready to have ch…

The City Park Outdoor Sculpture Garden in New Orleans

Love and Spiders in NOLA
Here's me posing with the Spider sculpture in a sculpture garden at New Orlean's City Park. In this pic are the sculpture works of Robert Indiana and Louise Bourgeois.

I love this picture because I love spiders & I love New Orleans & I love LOVE & I love that stripey dress & they're all in this one photo!

This photo is fro Feb 2014. The sculpture garden of City Park is free to visit. City Park is the second largest urban park in the country. If you've been to New Orleans for Jazzfest, you may have visited City Park because the location for Jazzfest is nearby. In addition to great walking paths, excelent picni and play space, a cafe and the New Orleans Museum of Art, they also have paddle boats! When was the last time you went paddle boating?!?!? I haven't done it at City Park, but I'm putting it on the To Do List for a future visits.

It's a great part of the city to visit, if you ever get the chance to go there.

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