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Change With The Change
A story for parents and grandparents, who wonder, if anything they say, sticks. When I was young, I didn’t want what my elders were selling, all that slow ‘n steady, do right, even if
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We May Not Pass This Way Again
(In July of 2014 I did not know what was coming.) I was driving Clifford, my 1992 Ford dually diesel, 300,000 miles on the motor, body looked like half a million, headed to Texas,
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Southwest Louisiana Loves Ben Terry
By Pierre Fontenot If you want to appreciate the best of Southwest Louisiana, it’s not nature and climate, it’s the people. Sometimes crusty and rusty, occasionally ahead, occasionally behind, but where they really shine,
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A Prayer
Our Father, Who loves us Despite our despites, Because, because, because… Thank You For Your all-ness And everything-ness. Thank You for our lives And another day of it. May we respect
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Chasing Easter
Most Easters find me in motion, without emotions. I am aware, wish to care, but for all that I intend, mostly I just attend. I’VE BEEN ALIVE for 65 Easters. Discount the kiddie ones, that still leaves
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Saving My Bullets
In my youth I watched B Westerns. There was always a horse chase. No matter how flat the terrain, the good guy (white hat) and the bad guy (black hat) always found some mountain
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We Are Each A Quilt
Dear Reader, Someone asked me what turning 65 was like. I thought, ‘Aging is like being a quilt.’ Every House Had A Singer I am old enough to remember a childhood where every house
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Generational Character
I witnessed my father do a U-turn, to go back to a convenience store, because the clerk had given him too much change. Another young man of that generation, parents both dead, he
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And Now Comes 2022
2021 was a fast year. They do get that way, as you age. Aging is quite the mystery, in a million measurements. How one looks at time is something they don’t warn you about
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Hurricane Laura – The Book
Like We Were A Rented Mule Of the 329 million people in America in the year 2020, nobody had a harder year, than the 313 thousand people of Southwest Louisiana. The area’s largest city,
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