If you read my Sept. 3 column, you know I proclaimed my plans to wear white pants after Labor Day (gasp). When I announced this fact on Facebook, one of
I am thankful every day for our country and its freedoms. I appreciate the many sacrifices made in order for countless numbers to grow up in a country where individualism,
BOSTON — Official government documents often are masterpieces of deadened prose, but few contain an understatement quite like this sentence, from the Annual Report of the Police Department for the
Remember the days when candidates for U.S. Senator or Governor would speak to thousands of supporters at weekend rallies all over Louisiana? Huey Long was the master, mainly because he
“I guess I’m having my second childhood,” said my 90-year-old aunt in our telephone conversation this weekend. “I never had tonsillitis as a child but now I’m on my second
It seems to be taking an awfully long time to remodel the guest bathroom, but that’s partly my fault. Apparently you can’t just put a shower anywhere you want, because
In the song “The Living Years,” Mike Rutherford of Mike & the Mechanics wrote: Every generation blames the one before And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
Proving, once again, that fact is stranger by far than fiction, a grandmother recently asked me what she should do about her daughterin-law who, despite her husband’s increasingly meek objections,
BATON ROUGE — By Gov. John Bel Edwards’ telling, Louisiana’s economy is on the mend, growing and creating new jobs after exiting a recession. By his Republican opponents’ accounts, the
