2011 VC Eagles help Simon Family heal While the football season is over for the 2011 Vermilion Catholic Eagles after a semi-final loss Friday, one Gueydan family wants to thank the team and the VC fans for helping them heal, four years...
KIVA: An excellent program whose time has now come On July 21, 2009, an unexpected email appeared in my Yahoo in-box. I thought it was SPAM, and my finger reached for the key that would disappear it forever. Then curiosity won.
The title was catchy...
"LIES": Hard to read, but harder to ignore In 1995, a small paperback book came out. The cover, intended to capture curiosity, captured mine, so I bought it, started reading it, got stuck, and put it in my growing mountain of “Some day I’ll...
Turning American History into a fascinating game American History should be for us Americans an exciting subject. Except it isn’t, for most of us, based on a few conversations I had with anyone I thought would have an opinion. Three people in a r...
Three people brought one message. Or did they? There is nothing earth-shaking in my story for today. In this land of story-tellers, you usually expect a laugh or at least a smile. Less often is a story told to teach or niggle your mind into tho...
Hair today doesn't always mean gone tomorrow All of us are mammals. How do I know? Humans have hair. Only mammals have hair. Like that. But growing hair isn’t what makes you a mammal. First, you have to have a vertebra, be warm-blooded, and i...
Well-written good ideas aren't old after 30 years Thirty years is a long time. Except when age doesn’t matter. That’s about how long ago I belonged to a book club that knew how to do two things right, offer very good reading bound in paper. QPBC...
I may not ever understand how women think I will probably never understand the way women think; it’s too hard. It may be too hard for you too, and if you try you will only hurt yourself. Unless you are a woman, in which case, you may be sm...
Wanted to lease: an old lighthouse, anywhere The phone rang way too early one morning, around 3:00 a.m. Witching hour it’s sometimes called, a time when strange things can menace us and when we are least prepared.
I let it ring a couple of ti...
How to act when you really want to feel rich I am rich. More accurately, I feel rich, and have started acting differently. Maybe you can start acting differently too.
I’m writing to share insights on human behavior, or maybe to justify my ...
A dream of long ago and a special day in April Central Kansas during one of my early years there. It was 1969, late winter or early spring. Both mean “cold.” Because winters there aren’t much fun, folks prefer the second expression because it ...
Post 9/11: Where in the world do we belong? Ten years ago last Sunday, something happened in our country, to our country and to us, the people of this land. Since there has been non-stop coverage, last Sunday and beyond, I won’t repeat the d...
