Hoping for a 2024 that is memorable

Some of this past year was great. My husband and I flew to Chicago & walked the city for 4 days, then traveled by train to New Orleans. Despite a horrible train ride in the same train I rode in the 1980s, we had an amazing time.

New Orleans was so much cooler, safer, friendlier then when I lived there, it actually made me cry. Blacks are finally treated equally in many ways. We got hugs from complete strangers. They have a new park named after Louie Armstrong. They have a new streetcar line ...