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The Making Of A Book
Pierre Fontenot December 21, 2018 Comments Off on The Making Of A BookYears ago, a nephew’s high school graduation, I’m up in the nosebleed section of the Civic Center, numbed with boredom. The caps, the gowns, the ritual, the same speeches that I heard, Future of
Read More »Thank Full At Thanksgiving
Pierre Fontenot December 6, 2018 Comments Off on Thank Full At ThanksgivingWe Americans, we fors and againsts, we have and have nots, we the so-many-of-us, we spend the whole year as neighbors in America, often with little in common, and then comes November, and our
Read More »Live Oaks And Wounded Souls
Pierre Fontenot November 16, 2018 Comments Off on Live Oaks And Wounded SoulsSusan Boyd and her husband, Blake, had a life, and it was normal, and then came a symptom. Tests and biopsies and scans – the nervous knot in the stomach – many of
Read More »The Social Immune System Of America
Pierre Fontenot November 2, 2018 Comments Off on The Social Immune System Of AmericaMy childhood tragedies, wasp stings, fire ant bites, I’d get more sympathy from my mother. My grandmother – not much. She’d had decades of life, like it used to be, before my dainty baby
Read More »The 1950s
Pierre Fontenot October 19, 2018 Comments Off on The 1950sDonald Trump’s campaign slogan was Make America Great Again. Again like when, he was asked. The good ole ‘80’s Reagan years? Nope, Trump was thinking about the ‘50’s. A Trip To The WWII Museum
Read More »The Obituary of Sears
Pierre Fontenot October 5, 2018 Comments Off on The Obituary of SearsTowards dusk, going to the local mall, I park where I’ve always parked, on the Sear’s side. Something didn’t look right. The glass doors were there, the lights were on, but inside, a store
Read More »Friday Night Football: Small School Version
Pierre Fontenot September 21, 2018 Comments Off on Friday Night Football: Small School VersionDoing the where-you-froms with a stranger, tell him my roots are in a little town called Oberlin. He says “Hoyle Granger! I played against him.” “How’d that work out for you?” “Ankles ‘n shoelaces.
Read More »Tall Tales From A Picker
Pierre Fontenot September 10, 2018 Comments Off on Tall Tales From A PickerGassing up in Texas, I notice this pickup up-to-here with junk. Here comes the guy. “Admiring your load,” I say. “Man, I got barns full.” Two kinds of people in my business: dabblers,
Read More »Pearls Cast Before Swine
Pierre Fontenot August 16, 2018 Comments Off on Pearls Cast Before SwineLove is a pearl. Other nice words too: friendship, loyalty, good intentions and sincerity, patience, and second chances beyond the count. Unselfishness is a pearl. By the act we acknowledge
Read More »Jimmy Carter: Our Greatest Ex-President
Pierre Fontenot August 2, 2018 Comments Off on Jimmy Carter: Our Greatest Ex-PresidentLet’s Begin Our Story With A Public Humiliation Defeating an incumbent president is hard to do. One term presidents include such duds as Taft, Van Buren, and Hoover, but the list is small. On
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