Apart from one year in Presbyterian kindergarten and four years at Ruston High School, I received all my formal education from Louisiana Tech University.
I’ve often described young Brian Trahan as some type of Walter Mitty type explorer, using imagination to visit people, places and things away from Jennings, Louisiana.
Well, nutria are back in the news. Recent press reports indicate that these pesky rodents are moving inland to gnaw away at our swamplands. These little critters are taking over the state.
This is a horrible time to be alive; or at least that’s what you would think if you turn on the television and watch the news for five minutes. Hamas has become the scourge of the modern age rivaling the horde of Genghis Khan as it killed, enslaved and desecrated human life.
The two things I remember most about Christmas decorating when I was a kid are shopping for a live tree and hanging foil tinsel icicles on it when we got it home.
Unfortunately, cancer is prevalent in my family. On my father’s side, many of my relatives have battled cancer, and some have succumbed to it. As my father did in January of 2013.
I grew up the son of an English teacher. Not the kind of English that kids seem to get in school these days — the kind that’s all about reading literature texts and picking out themes, without making sure students have a grasp of the actual mechanics of the language itself.
On Nov. 3, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed the “United States’ Opposition to Applications to Broadcast the Criminal Trial of United States v. Trump,” with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.