Faith, Fiction, Friends

A flat tire introduced me to the sirens and their mother. Before I knew Terpsichore as a muse or the mother of sirens, I knew her as a stree...

When you’re born and raised in a city like New Orleans, you become aware of certain things very early on.   First, there’s food. The basic N...

The book sat on a bookshelf in my parent’s bedroom for as long as I can remember. The shelf itself was a former window, occupied by an air c...

When you are born and grow up in a state that has parishes instead of counties, whose legislature was required to write laws in both French ...

She wasn’t famous. She didn’t do anything that would make historians sit up and take notice. But there is a story attached to Wilhemina Oste...

In early November, we visited friends and family in the New Orleans area. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, we found ourselves with some of our o...

Ava has lived in Iowa for the 14 years of her life. Most of that life was on a farm, until her father lost the property and then his own lif...

Zach Nelson is a retired New Orleans police officer. He’s been living with his son and daughter-in-law; his wife was murdered many year...

For a native of New Orleans, reading the 16 short stories of Perpetual Care   by  James Nolan  is an immersion in both memory and reali...

New Orleans, the city where I was born and grew up in, turned 300 years old last year, rather old by American standards. Founded by the...

I remember my childhood Christmas celebrations by presents and relatives. The earliest Christmas I recall must have been when I was...

I was 12. My soon-to-be-sister-in-law was taking me and her younger sister to the circus. I had been to the circus once before, but had...

In   Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears ,   Margaret Feinberg discusses one way she deal...

I’ve been reading On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life That Lasts by Charity Craig and Ann Kroeker. I like this book...

The cities of the dead, they say, or they think they say, come alive on certain days, at certain times, whisps and vapors e...