Sunrise reveals a chilly world in Tallahassee, bejeweled by dew and quiet but for the bright notes of birds. It is Easter Sunday, a day when, I like to imagine, people summon the best of themselves and set aside the worst. Love over hate, and all...
A small, hardback book just came in the mail. It’s about a deadly rampage in 1868 in Chalmette, just downriver from New Orleans, by white vigilantes against Black people recently freed from slavery. Author and historian Chris Dier tells the...
This is the story of a cypress tree that lay in a bayou in South Louisiana for many years. How many years? 100? 300? Who knows? It begins one day when I decided I wanted to build a writing table for my home library in Slidell, La. I looked on...
Way out Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, past the NASA Michoud facility and past the Vietnamese grocers and cafes, you can turn north onto Highway 11 and cruise a few miles along Bayou Sauvage. This area is a federal wildlife refuge with...
I am back at the Prairie Field Station to check on the nature of things. We are having spectacular weather in Houston this week. Low humidity. Upper 70s. Sunshine. Flowers bloom in sunny places throughout the Houston Arboretum – around the...
Glittered shoes are distinctively New Orleans works of art. They are projects of love, given freely each year, handed downward by Mardi Gras float riders into a sea of parade-goers, an act intended to connect with a member of the crowd, waiting...
I met an inquisitive man the other day at the Prairie Field Station in the Houston Arboretum. We had one of those unexpected discussions that sometimes happen when you least expect it . . .
Last night from my hotel bed high above the Mississippi, as a thunderstorm worked overhead, I heard, no, not just heard, felt, ship captains lay on fog horns to warn of their passage ‘round the Mississippi River bend at New Orleans. Be warned . ...
I awoke this morning to a Mardi Gras wonderland, surrounded by bead bags in the process of being filled to the brim. Recycled cardboard boxes and a mountain of cellophane circulated under foot. The bags of secret Krewe of Muses wonders pictured...
General observation: Writers often sit down at a keyboard and come up with thoughts that had never occurred to them before. Their own words surprise them. Mardi Gras does that to people; it brings to the surface the weird and creative in whoever...
In the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, you can tell natives from visitors and newcomers by the way they act at parades. The fresh ones are the skinny, 5-foot, 10-inch-tall (most of them – it’s odd) white guys with short hair and...
I see all these links about who the Saints should draft or keep or pick up next year, but right now I don’t have a next year of football in my head. I haven’t looked at a single post about next year – not after the outrageous pass interference...
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