Faith, Fiction, Friends

November, 2022: It’s just over 53 years since I first walked on the campus at LSU in Baton Rouge as a college freshman. I’m in the school’s ...

My wife and I undertake Christmas cards as something of a team effort, dividing them between us. She handles her family, I handle mine,...

My introduction to the writing of William Faulkner was indirect. It began in college and almost didn’t survive college. Way back wh...

The used book store where I spent a fair amount of money in the last 20 years has moved locations, forced to vacate the 19 th century ...

I know the date, time, and place almost exactly. Jan. 26, 1973, about 9 p.m., outside a room in a basement lecture hall at LSU in Bato...

I didn’t learn this in journalism school. Yes, I have to admit that my undergraduate degree was in journalism. LSU had an official Sc...

Done nobody put on a tailgate party like us LSU fans do a taligate party and the beer do flow, ma cher, and the shrimps do boil wi...

In college, when my pledge class went through the fraternity’s initiation week, we had to carry around a cigar box painted white with the ...

I was sitting on top of my world. And it was misery. Toward the end of my freshman year in college at LSU, I set certain goals, things I ...

LSU 's football team has an off-day this weekend, and likely looking ahead to next week's game against Alabama. While we were visiti...

When we were in New Orleans last week, we took one day to head down memory lane and drove up to Baton Rouge to see LSU. I could write volume...

Forty years ago today, Earth Day was born, the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and organizer Dennis Hayes. If you were in ...

I don't know what I was thinking, or what I wasn't thinking, but about three weeks before I graduated from LSU's School of Journ...