No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and...
No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in t...
Are you suffering with chronic migraines? Is your digestive system in a constant state of upheaval, including constipation, diarrhea, and stomach upset? Do you constantly feel lethargic and have you lost the energy that you may have once had? Is your mind in a fog sometimes? Do you have trouble focusing and thinking? The author, John Pope, has experienced all of these symptoms as well as many more. In his case, all of these symptoms, incredibly, were attributed to one insidious little protein called gluten. Join the author on a personal journey of discovery. Learn the circumstances that...
Are you suffering with chronic migraines? Is your digestive system in a constant state of upheaval, including constipation, diarrhea, and stomach upse...