Shadows on the Teche, 1938 Fantastic news!  The good people at the Books Along the Teche Literary Festival have offered me a media pass...

Shadows on the Teche Books and literary festivals are right up my alley: I love them!  I love book bazaars, book festivals, book fairs, ...

Crepe Myrtles in the Louisiana sun One of the great driving forces in marketing these days is, believe it or not, Instagram.  We've ...

The Book Merchant, Natchitoches (2010) Cottonwood Books in Baton Rouge is a small, independent bookseller that has figured out how to su...

Postcard photo by Neil Johnson of Fair Grounds Field I've got baseball fever.  Spring is coming; I can almost see it from here, an...

This is not going to be the post I want to write, but the time for that is not quite now. As if the loss of Tom Petty was not bad enough...

Pooling water from meter leak Nothing to see here. Shreveport is doing just fine: we defeated a sports complex and allowed Uber in....

Christmas break is coming to an end and the new school semester begins Monday.  It has been absolute bliss to have this time to rest, rech...

Is blogging dead? Caution: reflective navel-gazing ahead. Is blogging still relevant?  It is a subject much on my mind lately as I...

Credit: Advertising Media Plus It is almost time to turn the calendar to a new year and so typically we tend to reflect over the previo...

Milly Rose, Heidi and Rosie (2014) I've been thinking about this blog post since June 1, 2017 and I still don't think I have en...