Living Around the Bayou
Down the street, rather along Highway 165, I turned off at Cross Keys Bank to open an account and deposit a check from West End Press in… Read More »Living Around the Bayou
Down the street, rather along Highway 165, I turned off at Cross Keys Bank to open an account and deposit a check from West End Press in… Read More »Living Around the Bayou
It’s been a year since I arrived in the northeastern portion of Louisiana, a wilderness and a wonderland to a northerner who has never lived… Read More »Mosquitoes Create Jobs
When I drove to Jackson, Mississippi to meet with several members of the Writer’s Guild for lunch, I discovered the answer to a question that I’d been… Read More »Eudora Welty in Jackson, Mississippi
I’ve passed through a rite of motherhood that has spanned some twenty years. No more deadlines, meetings, no project emails that must be answered. I’ve… Read More »On Eastlake Road Thinking About Marie Richard
Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined I’d be living in the rural south. When I say never, I really mean never. I’m… Read More »Welcome to the Sterlington, Louisiana Dirt Track Races
When I first moved to Monroe, Louisiana from Oakland, California, I was cautioned about becoming a bug activist. Instead I was advised to think about… Read More »Beauty and the Bugs
I took a bike ride this morning around Bayou Bartholomew, which is not quite as Lance Armstrong as it sounds, a five-mile pedal around a… Read More »Biking Around the Upper Ouachita
This is my first season in Louisiana. I came here in triple digit heat, sweat beading off my arms by just standing outside, an occupant… Read More »A Jew in Monroe, Lousiana
I found the Sterlington, Louisiana Library, a new building only five years old, located a hop, skip and a jump away from where I now live.… Read More »Finding My Way Around Vicksburg
The deed is done. The movers drove up yesterday in an 80 foot truck, the kind you see in your rear view mirror barreling down… Read More »Sterlington or Bust