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One of these days, there will be a new house there, with new stories to tell of families who live there. But I think I know what 2632 was really like Peniston. I knew what the neighbors were like, and it was not 'your calm, depressed area of New Orleans. He was alive.

He was at home.

It was my childhood home after Katrina.

I took these photos for almost a year, thanks to NOdiaspora. I send them by mail as an attachment to my sister, who gave them to my mother, who at 72 is not computer-literate.She always keeps me about the Truthiness blogs. I told him everything I read is related to actual news stories.

But my mother could not bring himself to see them.

I apologize if this seems long log. But I always know that our house was near death before finally rising floods killed. When you kill houses, killing a neighborhood, too. When you kill the livelihood of people, houses down with the neighborhood.When it came to property in New Orleans, as blacks living in a house or apartment, some owners will do that to repair only enough to keep until she is formally sentenced. There is a law that says tenants can not even put their own repairs, but must wait until the owner. Of course, for some people, which could take years.

Our house is like a ship wrecked on the corner of Peniston and Magnolia. Rotting, wrecked, ruined and abandoned. In the new New Orleans, I think that eventually it will be demolished. These past curtains in the window are a flag of surrender.Yes, I'll cry when that day comes. Our House undergone at least four or five inches of flooding. Last year, when I saw a television Napoleon Avenue, near Freret Street, when it appeared that anyone could go whitewater rafting on the main street, I knew that our house was condemned ....

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