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The Pendulum Swings Our Way
Pierre Fontenot December 10, 2020 Comments Off on The Pendulum Swings Our WayJust me and some dogs, porch sitting on a November-in-Louisiana morning, so wonderful I’m wondering if nature is apologizing for August and September. The sun is gentle, breeze is gentle, and for the first time since I-can’t-remember-when, my spirit is gentle…
Read More »The Stayers Of Hurricane Laura
Pierre Fontenot November 19, 2020 Comments Off on The Stayers Of Hurricane LauraSome admitted feeling brave – until that first tree cracked. Whole families hid in halls, with pillows and sofa cushions ready to soften the blow, if a tree came through the roof. One family
Read More »All These Weeks After Hurricane Laura
Pierre Fontenot November 19, 2020 Comments Off on All These Weeks After Hurricane LauraWhat I can’t get over is how ugly it still is, all these weeks after Hurricane Laura. What a hurricane could do in one night, my goodness, those that see what I see, just
Read More »Optimism By Choice
Pierre Fontenot August 20, 2020 Comments Off on Optimism By ChoiceIf I’m thirsty, I drink, if I’m hungry, I eat, but how does one quench pessimism? I feel it, personally, I feel it, locally, I think America is in a national state of negative.
Read More »I Was Wondering…
Pierre Fontenot August 6, 2020 Comments Off on I Was Wondering…I’ve always wondered, what it’s like, to be black, in America, But if I was asked what it was like to be white in America, Who am I to answer, even though I am
Read More »Halfway Through An Angry Year
Pierre Fontenot July 16, 2020 Comments Off on Halfway Through An Angry YearFirst The Virus It was a just-like-that kind of thing; one minute we were running our own lives, like competent adults, and next minute we’re sent to our rooms, like kids on a school
Read More »Hurricane Audrey Hits Grand Chenier
Pierre Fontenot July 2, 2020 Comments Off on Hurricane Audrey Hits Grand Chenier“My grandparents had their truck loaded, figs, canned peaches, rice, some duck meat from the freezer,” says Glenda Smith Huber. “They were ready to go, first thing in the morning. “The last news
Read More »The Virus Takes My Barber
Pierre Fontenot June 18, 2020 Comments Off on The Virus Takes My BarberThere’s a truth in that just-found-out moment. There it was, like an ambush, a picture of Reggie, my barber, the picture a family favorite, flattering, but real, there he is, eyes and smile, the
Read More »That Feeling You Have
Pierre Fontenot April 2, 2020 Comments Off on That Feeling You Have…wasn’t it just the other day, that feeling that it was going to be just another March, thinking about spring and gardening, and then a week later, it’s the strangest March of your life,
Read More »Getting On The Front Porch Is Easy
Pierre Fontenot March 19, 2020 Comments Off on Getting On The Front Porch Is EasyI said Hey to a stranger. It’s what Louisiana people do. She hey-ed me back. Our brains, they just know – FAST – whether a stranger is local or elsewhere. I said, “Where
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