This morning marked a full week since the tornado tore areas of Ruston apart. There’s really nothing else I could possibly write this column about. out for me as I
I’ve been renting a little green cottage-style house on North Homer Street behind Greenwood Cemetery. There was a lovely, elevated back deck with my collection of plants and a chartreuse
Dear Rusty: I turned 67 in September 2018. My benefit estimate is $1,478 a month if I claim benefits now. I work and will continue working as long as I
Sometimes closure begins in the jury box. Consider the case of 59-year-old Vincent D. Roberson. He’s the man now convicted of killing a Lincoln Parish Sheriff ’s K-9 officer in
There is child raising and there is “parenting.” America replaced the former with the latter in the 1970s and it’s been downhill ever since. My mother — a single parent
It happened in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And it happened this weekend in Ruston. Sometimes when facing tragedy headon, a little escape, no matter how slight,
Readers, it’s just you and me as I’m writing this at 10:30 Thursday night. At our house we have no internet connection and no TV reception. So if I want
This August, Elvis Presley Enterprises will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the rock icon’s triumphant return to the concert stage in Las Vegas. To commemorate the occasion, they are calling
