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… 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… Read More »Living Around the Bayou
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
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… Read More »M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Walmart in Monroe, where I walked through what seemed like a hundred brands of everything and anything before I found, in between the frozen chicken… Read More »Standing at the Pizza Altar
I dreamed a silicon chip looked like an Aztec mask, a great yawning blackness where a mouth should be. A dying vampire awoke in a… Read More »Plane Time
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
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 »Moving from California to Louisiana
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 »Temple Run
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