Warm Fuzzies Are Always Better Than Cold Pricklies My luck ran out in 1974. Everything went wrong. But I believed then, and believe it now, that what happens next is the same as when you get knocked down: Get back up. The bad luck is unimpor...
Reflections on Psalms 23, King James Translation A man once lived in the neighborhood where I was growing up. I can’t say that I knew him, but I knew of him and even saw him from time to time when I passed his house on my bike.
He was qu...
Albert Brumley: A Man With a Gift and a Calling The material for today’s column was initiated by a very small bird with a very large voice. The beautiful spring weather demanded a few minutes in the yard. The bird thought so too. His (probably h...
To Hug Or Not To Hug:More Than A Question You probably remember the story of a sea captain confronted by a terrible dilemma. The course he charted took him through a narrow channel, where two sea monsters lurked. He could only avoid one. O...
Bendel name lives in stores across country Henri Bendel died 75 years ago this week. His name is remembered in Acadiana because of the Bendel Gardens subdivision in Lafayette. But that’s not why he’s still remembered in places where h...
Reflecting on ways to view the sky at night Very few of us have never gone outside at night, just to look at the sky. One of the keener pleasures in life is the privilege of living where there are few obstacles like power lines, where there ...
Of Burning Horses, Santa Fe and an obsidian ball I was setting out for an exotic city that lay over 300 miles to the south-west and 4000 feet higher from sea level than where I was living. I was late, probably because I really didn't want to go. ...
Basile celebrating centennial The Evangeline Parish community of Basile is marking the 100th anniversary of its incorporation this month, but its history starts more than a century ago.
Basile was first known as S...
Looking at the influence of a childhood poem For some 10 years, I lived in a primitive old farmhouse on the plains of eastern Kansas, working with somewhat mixed results to complete the maturation process from a boy to a man. It wasn't e...
Duson bad guy was well armed It was big news in Duson when fast living and local police caught up with Robert Benton Mathus on the morning of March 19, 1953.
He was one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Men when Lafayet...
Christmas and Mardi Gras have something in common Possibly you remember an unusual toy collection called Transformers. They were made a little like a Rubric Cube so that, with a few twists and turns, a human figure would turn into a truck.The attr...
Bunk Johnson had proper nickname Everyone’s heard of Louis Armstrong, the most famous New Orleans jazz trumpeter of all, but the man who created Armstrong’s music and who the New York Times said taught Armstrong to play that m...
