As I wrote last week , I heard readings from her latest novel, The Cutting Season , by award winning author Attica Locke, and immediately b...

Apparently, I am not the only one having a hard time making up her mind in the Louisiana House District 65 special election. Another flyer...

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. It is early this year, like Easter, not surprisingly since the date for Mardi Gras is tied to Easter. For the ...

It’s been two weeks since I sent my email to “Dred Woodrow” and I haven’t received an answer, so I don’t think I ever will. Not that I ex...

I ran into a snag in writing to the two candidates for state house district 65 as proposed in my post, The Opposition . “Dred Woodrow’s”...

Since my husband and I are members of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation , we get invited to the annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary E...

Hussein Sumac’s opponent in the upcoming special election is also a Republican, a current city council member whom I will refer to as Dre...

Actually, it was a ring at the doorbell, but “A knock at the door” sounds more portentous, somehow. Saturday morning I was messing around ...

As a result of the big Saturday night fight at our local mall , one of our city councilors has reintroduced measures to toughen up teen cu...

This year was the first time in a long time we haven’t had an invitation to M’s house for Thanksgiving. M had for years been holding Thank...

Several months ago, a reader left a comment on my post about the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas informing me of another point ...

I know I am supposed to be writing accounts of my travels, but I have been busy since I got home. Earlier this week, for instance, I att...

There’s a saying that goes, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” My plans were modest enough, I thought. I wanted to fly ...

Isaac has now strengthened into a hurricane and instead of moving inland, weakening back to a tropical storm, and moving out of my life ha...

People who live in the-parts-of-Louisiana-that-are-not-New-Orleans are used to being overlooked. I suppose it’s possible that the reality ...