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THE BEST MEDICINE
Thank God for small favors and great doctors. There’s nothing like facing a life-changing event to properly adjust your priorities. In fact, most everyday crises we face are in reality rather trivial. A serious illness has a way of sorting through all the fluff and getting down to the core. Once you’ve been there, »
Making ‘The Best’ Cover
By Brad Goins As the deadline for Lagniappe’s 21st annual Best of Southwest Louisiana approached, Lake Charles photographer Lindsey Janies was given the assignment of photographing a modernized version of Jeannie — the magical pixie who popped out of a genie’s bottle in the 1960s sitcom. This new Jeannie would be the official »
“THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE”
State Police Troop D’s Grant-A-Wish Program Is Making Dreams Come True For Sick Children In Southwest Louisiana By Angie Kay Dilmore Seventeen-year-old Harrison Veuleman was born with cerebral palsy and has spent most of his life in a wheelchair. According to his mother Amy, he’s a huge football fan. One of his dreams was to »
THE BEST DEAL FOR ONLINE BACKUP
You really need to back-up your computer. Some folks use an external hard drive, and others use an online back-up service that sends your back-up files into the “cloud.” I use both, and having that type of redundancy in place has saved me from potential disasters. The last time I wrote anything about online »
THE BEST PART
Deer season is winding down, but with no shortage of exciting stories. Every day is a different adventure out in Mother Nature —one you can’t experience unless you get up early and show up. When the hunting is “on,” it’s a really special adventure you can’t experience unless you get up early and show »
Wedding Day Glamour
By Madelaine B. Landry The one day that a woman does not want an unexpected glitch to happen is her wedding day. That definitely includes her carefully crafted timeline for wedding makeup, wedding hair and overall wedding glamour. With as little stress as possible, the bride, her attendants and her close family members each »
It’s Good To Be The King
For Lagniappe’s Best of 2021 — the magazine’s 28th annual Reader’s Choice Awards — the theme was “It’s Good To Be The King.” Portraying the King — he was actually called King Kane I for the article — in dozens of photographs was Kane Mitchell, who is the banking center manager of the Red »
Colt Mire Tia Juanita’s Fish Camp
Though he’s an experienced chef, Colt Mire isn’t “the” chef at Tia Juanita’s. He’s there in a consultant capacity. And he’s largely, if not totally, responsible for bringing Tia Juanita’s back after its closure following the storms of 2020. “Susie (owner Susan Lalonde) called me up,” Mire says. “They’d closed the place after the »