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THIS BEING A FRESH JANUARY …
Pierre Fontenot January 23, 2014 Comments Off on THIS BEING A FRESH JANUARY …Let me stand, but bend to truth. Let me write my conclusions in pencil, and have no shame in a well worn eraser. Let me see myself true and fit my britches. Having paid
Read More »FOOTLOOSE CHRISTMAS
Pierre Fontenot January 8, 2014 Comments Off on FOOTLOOSE CHRISTMASThinking back on it, the only thing missing was Kevin Bacon. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ My father was Big on honesty, which came under some social erosion with all
Read More »LAST WORDS
Pierre Fontenot December 4, 2013 Comments Off on LAST WORDSI was in conversation recently with someone who had lost her father to cancer. He was a loving family man, southern style, like we raise our boys to be daddies and grandpas, and when
Read More »FAMILY REUNION
Pierre Fontenot November 20, 2013 Comments Off on FAMILY REUNIONWe lived on the old home place, our little red house built new in the year of my first year in school, set up under a trio of gorgeous oak trees, a plot of
Read More »Amazing Grace
Pierre Fontenot September 1, 2013 Comments Off on Amazing GraceShe’s on my mind tonight — she being the old song — just notes on a piano, no singing, no need. If there is a more powerful song in the history of all songs,
Read More »That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong Church
Pierre Fontenot August 15, 2013 Comments Off on That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong ChurchThis is how the memory goes … I don’t know where we’re going, or why, but we’ve been going all day, I’m just the little kid in the big back seat, Mom and Dad
Read More »Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?
Pierre Fontenot July 18, 2013 Comments Off on Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?I really hope God still lets us get hungry Up There, not starving, but that good kind of hungry, like when I was a kid, working or playing, just burning calories like a tornado
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