Carroll DevineSep 21, 20181 minPurple ShowersEvery morning, for months at a time, dozens of beautiful lavender flowers appear along tall green stems clustered around our mailbox....
Carroll DevineOct 16, 20172 minGems ftj Floating LegacyMany years ago, when I had sailed away to the rest of the world and a completely new life, I still wanted to leave my ‘mark’ in the old...
Carroll DevineSep 22, 20172 minGems from the Journey HOMEWhen New Orleans natives leave home, people say, sooner or later, like homing pigeons, they find their way back. For me it was both...
Carroll DevineSep 21, 20173 minGems from the JourneyFifty years ago on September 20, 1967 a naïve young woman boarded the Spanish freighter, Mar Egeo, at a New Orleans wharf for a two-week...