Joie d'Eve

Living, loving, laughing, and learning in the new New Orleans

Reunions: Why Bother in NOLA?

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Posted 2013.06.14 05:00 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Time for Summertime

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Posted 2013.06.06 11:49 PM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Answering the Sibling Question

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Posted 2013.05.31 09:34 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Mother Love

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Posted 2013.05.24 09:37 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

The Choices Moms Make

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Posted 2013.05.17 09:28 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Journalistic Ethics, a Product Review and Mother’s Day

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Posted 2013.05.10 07:25 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

In the Pink: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pastels

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Posted 2013.05.03 08:29 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

In Sickness: Dealing with a Sick Child

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Posted 2013.04.26 08:18 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

A Very New Orleans Baptism

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Posted 2013.04.19 09:40 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Life and Death and Baptism

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Posted 2013.04.12 09:40 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Dreams and Dresses

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Posted 2013.04.04 11:40 PM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Parenting and the Steubenville Rape Case: How Do You Teach Your Kids to Be Safe?

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Posted 2013.03.22 08:53 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Saying It Right: When You Miss Your Kid's Mispronunciations

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Posted 2013.03.15 09:03 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Macaron-Fueled Temper Tantrums

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Posted 2013.03.07 10:09 PM - Eve Kidd Crawford

Parenting a Baby and a Kindergartener

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Posted 2013.03.01 09:19 AM - Eve Kidd Crawford


Joie d'Eve

Living, loving, laughing, and learning in the new New Orleans

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Eve is further proof, if any is needed, that New Orleans girls can never escape the city. After living here since the age of 3 and graduating from Ben Franklin High School, Eve moved to Columbia, Mo., where she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism and became truly, unhealthily obsessed with grammar.

She had originally intended to strike out to New York City and work in the cutthroat magazine industry there, but after Katrina, Eve felt a strong pull to return home, to her roots, her family, her waterlogged and struggling city – and a much more forgiving work atmosphere that would allow her to skip a routine of everyday makeup and size 0 designer label business suits and enjoy the occasional cocktail or three with an absurdly fattening lunch. She moved back home in January 2008 and lives in Mid-City with her two daughters, Ruby and Georgia; her stepson, Elliot; and her husband, Robert Peyton.

Eve blogs about the joys and struggles of living in post-Katrina New Orleans, the unique problems and delights of raising a child in such a diverse and challenging city – including her experiences with the public education system – and her always entertaining and extremely colorful family.

Eve has won numerous writing awards, including the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal, the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence award for column-writing and Press Club of New Orleans awards for her Editor’s Note in New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and for this blog.

She welcomes comments, advice, empty flattery, recipes, drink invitations and – most especially – grammatical or linguistic debates.

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