What a week it has been.
Here we go again. Someone in a high place in Louisiana state government seems to need some publicity and has scrambled together an announcement of a remedy to a disease that barely exists.
I have always been one of those people who “wondered why.” Even at a very young age, I chose to get answers rather than swim in a pool of puzzles.
Sometimes, fulfilling a goal is like traveling a long road, and then having to navigate through a scary place called “Where Dreams Die.”
All politics is local.
On June 27, I reached 70 years old.
Occasionally in this raucous political season I am saddened by comments and positions taken by some politicians.
Amid all the rancor of politics, war in the Middle East and the daily hell in the streets, I recently experienced an interesting morning thinking about events, both large and small, that I wit…
OK, I’ll admit it. When my brain is left unattended for long periods, my thoughts tend to meander to interesting places. For the most part, that’s a good thing.
It’s amazing to see all the protesters on college campuses across the country making their points about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, support for Israel, the Palestinians and everyt…
Slow down for a minute and listen. With their words and actions, Gov. Jeff Landry and conservatives in the Legislature are fanning the winds of change.
The McKinley High Alumni Association’s monthly meetings generally start the same way. There are a few conversations among members, a few jokes are shared and then there is a call to order.
Sometimes it’s difficult to block out the screeching noise of political rhetoric. The bombastic blather is so harsh that it can, despite our best efforts, spill over into those periods you sou…
It’s funny how timing works. You know, did this thing happen at this moment when you could have been somewhere else? You know, like the time you accidentally stumbled onto the last item of som…
Not long after sundown on the day the United States of America honored the life of one of its greatest civil rights leaders ever, Martin Luther King Jr., an animated politician blurted out one…
Michael Florida Jr. rose from his wheelchair a few weeks ago and, with the help of a cane and a woman assisting, mustered every ounce of strength he could and struggled down the aisle at his s…
Sometimes, it’s the subtleties of life that invade your thoughts and give you the 411 that you have changed. You realize that your walk in life is different. More succinctly, you understand th…
I decided I needed to clear my head on a recent morning. Junk had been sitting in there for a while and cluttering my thoughts. It needed to go.
The news in recent weeks around Baton Rouge has been a mix of politics, road issues, highways, gripes about this and that, politics and more politics. On the latter, one side smiles like the m…
Early on Election Day in 1871, a Black man named Octavius V. Catto, a celebrated schoolteacher in Philadelphia – no, not Mississippi, the other one in Pennsylvania – went out to vote. Catto wa…
A week ago, like always after visiting my mother-in-law’s house in Delhi and arriving home, I grabbed my phone to announce that I had safely made the nearly three-hour drive through Gilbert, C…
Warning: You will not be smarter after reading this column.
The following will be a brief bit of anger from me, so you can leave the column now if that might bother you.
There was a moment last Sunday afternoon where old words became new again. Really new. The words affected me a lot differently than the first time I heard them so many decades ago. On this day…
Earlier this week, I watched the emotion of the LSU Tiger baseball team and their fans after LSU won the NCAA College World Series.
When I was in elementary school, some three score years ago, a teacher would talk about slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation every year and the teachings would continue through senior hig…
One of the great things about writing a personal column is that I can take one subject and make points for or against it. I can take my position and move on to the next column.
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