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02/10/2015
On the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my pastor, James Skinner, stood up at the end of our church service.
“I want to make an announcement that I am ashamed to admit I have never made...
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02/09/2015
Let me tell you about a high school couple I once knew. She was a cheerleader, he was an athlete. She was cute, funny and well-liked. He was handsome, outgoing and popular. He was also extremely...
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02/09/2015
Higher Education administrators in Louisiana are breathing a little easier, at least for now.
Gov. Bobby Jindal released a list of proposed cuts and one-time fixes last week to try and close a more...
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02/07/2015
Not all books can gain the popularity of the Harry Potter series or “The Hunger Games,” but that doesn’t mean literary lovers shouldn’t give them a try.
If you’re anything like me, perhaps sometimes...
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02/06/2015
Heroes are defined not by what they do for you personally, but instead what they do for the greater good of all.
I recently had the pleasure of talking with someone with more wisdom and years behind...
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02/05/2015
This feeling only happens on a few occasions.
Some may feel it more than others, and some may go a whole lifetime unable to feel its sensation.
It can only be described as one that sucks the life...
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02/04/2015
Thank you, Gov. Jindal. First, you dismantled Louisiana’s charity health care system; next, you messed up elementary and secondary education with Common Core; then you lopped the legs of higher...
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02/03/2015
Driskill Mountain, named after James Christopher Driskill, is the highest natural summit in Louisiana. I learned that in my seventh grade Louisiana History class. That’s also where I learned that my...
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02/02/2015
February — still in the grasp of winter’s hand, but with an added sense of freshness and a feeling of impending birth, no matter what Punxsutawney Phil might say.
It’s a wonderful time of the year,...
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02/01/2015
I figured Ernie Banks would never die.
Not “Mr. Cub.” Not the unofficial ambassador of baseball or the eternal optimist.
Not the always smiling, always upbeat native of Dallas who became one of the...
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