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Advice To Seniors
Pierre Fontenot May 16, 2019 Comments Off on Advice To SeniorsDon’t chase money. There have been a guesstimated 100 billion humans on Earth and 90 billion of them spent their lives chasing money. Point is: it’s common. They chased hunting grounds, watering holes, timber,
Read More »Graduating Again
Pierre Fontenot May 2, 2019 Comments Off on Graduating AgainI have a nephew who is graduating high school. “That” is on my mind, the whole kicked-out-of-the-nest moment, where you can’t stay, gotta go, but go where, go how, go for what ‘n why…
Read More »The Gift Of Without
Pierre Fontenot April 19, 2019 Comments Off on The Gift Of WithoutWithout my past, what stranger would I now be? Without my past, what armor would I be missing, what foundation would I stand upon, what great knowing would be greatly unknown? Without smiles,
Read More »Spring In Louisiana
Pierre Fontenot April 4, 2019 Comments Off on Spring In LouisianaDear Louisiana, you do narrow us down. Even with school out, you make us do math in summer, multiplying heat x humidity. Your falls aren’t official. It can still be 80 at Thanksgiving, and
Read More »The Pendulum Swings To Pink: The Feminization Of America
Pierre Fontenot March 21, 2019 Comments Off on The Pendulum Swings To Pink: The Feminization Of AmericaHow It Was: 1960’s, my brother yelps, wasp got him. Grown men are near. Mr. Murphy, the oldest man, reached into his mouth and pulled out his spit soaked chew of tobacco and slapped
Read More »Forgiveness
Pierre Fontenot March 7, 2019 Comments Off on ForgivenessI write as an amateur on the subject. I have wronged, I have been wronged, but who hasn’t? At present I am neutral, knowing of nobody I owe, nor anyone who owes me.
Read More »A Birthday Gift Of Perspective
Pierre Fontenot February 21, 2019 Comments Off on A Birthday Gift Of PerspectiveI went to the cemetery on my birthday. (As first sentences go…) It was a red cheek day in January, full sunny, a north breeze slowed by trees, speeding up once it got into
Read More »The Foundation Of A Slow, Hard Start
Pierre Fontenot February 8, 2019 Comments Off on The Foundation Of A Slow, Hard StartI was the child of That man and That woman, in the great random of When and Where, raised up in Those years, under Those circumstances, and taught a Particular way of looking at
Read More »Fruit Of The Valley
Pierre Fontenot January 24, 2019 Comments Off on Fruit Of The ValleySHS Class of ’83, full of quality kids, my sister had hopes of giving the commencement speech. She came hope dejected, told our father that they’d “only” given her the benediction… Hear her father
Read More »Do I Believe In My Book?
admin January 11, 2019 Comments Off on Do I Believe In My Book?I have a marketing degree. Turns out I hate selling…things I don’t believe in. Armed with my college sheepskin, I ventured off to Dallas to enter the Land of Adults. I got a job
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