On the go this morning, but be sure to read this most excellent article by Charles Fishman in The Atlantic; it's also the subject of ...

Merry Christmas! It's been a lovely Christmas season Chez SIGIS; we did the family thing last weekend and my grandson - 2-1/2 years ...

Centenary Candlelight Service 2014 This is such a busy time of year and my already sporadic blogging has been more sporadic than usual i...

Lucky:  November 23 Update 12/29/14:  So very happy to report that Lucky has been adopted by one of the vet techs at Benton Animal Hosp...

Most people are probably a lot more technologically savvy than me, and if you scoff at my technological ignorance it really won't hurt...

With the schools closed today for election day, I had a rare day off.  I was full of big plans to spend the entire day working on my manus...

Today the South rose again in the fictional battle of Natchitoches. The little city of  Natchitoches, Louisiana celebrates its 300th bi...

Look at this adorable face! This is "Lucky" on his way to Benton Animal Hospital yesterday.  He was found by a former student ...

UPDATE #2: 11/1/14:  I've received some emails asking about the status of this investigation; there is no update to share yet.  I can ...

I am beginning to see why this book hasn't been written by anyone else in the past.  I think I'm also beginning to see why OCD peo...

Shreveport has lost a music legend. Local legend Bill Bush died yesterday.  You can go to the very nice Shreveport Times article for the...

This has been a simply fab birthday, so far! I'm not much for birthdays, really; the older I get...well, I actually had to do the m...

Please don't try to justify this by showing me all the times any other president didn't do a snappy salute: This is just insulti...

I was searching for something online last week and came across this Atlantic interview with author Stephen King.  It's been nagging a...

I stand corrected; I said last week that Obama has no cajones , but I was wrong.  He's got to have some huge stones to say this: ...