New Orleans

My love affair with New Orleans, including two weeklong volunteer trips with Hands on New Orleans.
2006
- Day 1: The return to New Orleans
- Day 2: Meet a city native who survives day to day
- Day 3: The colorful volunteers at work
- Day 4: The littlest Katrina victims: dogs and cats
- Day 5: Renewing a house, renewing ourselves
- Day 6: Convention center close-up
- Day 7: Katrina’s Ground Zero
- As originally posted live
- Song of Katrina
- Katrina the heartbreaker
- Especially that Coco


Writer and editor at large, humble blogger, Birminghamian through and through. Wade Kwon is all these things and less. After nearly a decade at the Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald and two-and-a-half years at Southern Living, he’s hard at work as a citizen journalist. His other blog is 
