Three weeks into this stay at home business and things are beginning to be routine now. I find that I can't write. This is a golden ...

Glorious sunshine!  It is such a mood-lifter after days and days of rain and gray skies! I wish the news was as bright. The daily COVID...

I'm not sure I'm doing this right.  This whole self-quarantine thing. This seems like the golden opportunity that I've been ...

The conspiracy theories abound. The more conspiracy theories I hear, the more willing I am to self-quarantine! I've heard everythi...

These are surreal times, aren't they? I just went through my planner marking off one event after another due to COVID-19. I need to ...

What a difference a day makes. One minute I'm on an airboat in the Atchafalaya Basin enjoying spring break and the next day I'm tr...

The Cactus League by Emily Nemens It's baseball season, y'all!  Finally! In Shreveport, we aren't lucky enough to have a m...

I’m an avid reader and am often reading at least two, sometimes three, books at one time. We do independent choice reading in my secondar...

Stuart showed no mercy in ping pong.   Added: Services tentatively scheduled for January 8 at 1:00, St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Pl...

Bayou Teche This is the time of the year when people tend to do a lot of reflection and self-evaluation, and I find myself doing the sam...

Kayaks on Bayou Teche (Arnaudville, LA) With less than a week before I return to work for the 2019-20 school year, I looked at this blo...

6/6/19:  Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day and I am reposting my tribute to Shreveport's own Kelley brothers.  During the course...

Arnaudville is a small community in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes on historic Bayou Teche and some pretty cool things are happening t...

New Iberia oaks featured during the Live Oak Walk. In my series on the Books Along the Teche Literary Festival , I would be remiss if I ...