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Easter Morning in Tallahassee
Easter Morning in Tallahassee
April 9, 2023 2 Comments 1

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 that . . .

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Geography of a Culture
Geography of a Culture
March 8, 2023 0 Comments 0

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 horrific story of these events in this new work of nonfiction, “The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, Blood in the Cane Fields.” Here is his summary of the events . . .

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Charlie’s Fine – A Short Story
Charlie’s Fine – A Short Story
December 12, 2021 6 Comments 2

From the darkened depths of some mystic basement, Raul arose before us six inches taller, at least, than before. Some say 10. Anyway, that’s the latest version. . . .

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  • Easter Morning in Tallahassee
    April 9, 2023
  • Geography of a Culture
    March 8, 2023
  • A Story About an Old Cypress Tree
    November 5, 2021
  • The Watery Solitude of Bayou Sauvage
    February 11, 2021
  • Own Books You Haven’t Read
    June 28, 2020
  • Report from the Houston Arboretum
    May 7, 2020
  • Fear of Straight Pins, Pandemic Version
    May 3, 2020
  • Glittered Shoes
    February 22, 2020
  • Millennials Don't Need Our Judgment
    February 1, 2020
  • How to See an Old Town
    January 26, 2020
  • Report from the Prairie Field Station
    December 11, 2019
  • The Value of Typing Slower
    November 25, 2019
  • We Think We Know Everything
    June 2, 2019
  • The Stowaway
    March 26, 2019
  • The Fog Hides the Sun
    February 27, 2019
  • A Mardi Gras Wonderland
    February 24, 2019
  • A Few Pre-Mardi Gras Notes
    February 11, 2019
  • Save the Artists, Musicians and Weirdos
    February 10, 2019
  • Hope Lives at a Chain Hotel
    February 8, 2019
  • Inscriptions Found in Used Books
    February 2, 2019
  • The No-Call Heard Round the World
    January 31, 2019
  • Going to Jake's Funeral
    January 24, 2019
  • Who to Be Nice to at the Office
    January 3, 2019
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  • Hannibal: A Trip into the Past
    December 16, 2018
  • A Queen Anne Bed and Breakfast at Christmas
    December 13, 2018
  • Regarding All the Other Reindeer
    December 10, 2018
  • How to Fix a Christmas Tree
    December 4, 2018
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    December 2, 2018
  • Autumn on the Upper Gulf Coast
    November 10, 2018
  • Aunt Martha & the Cat 5 Hurricane
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  • Beads, Beads and More Beads
    October 5, 2018
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  • Memoir Relives 1960s Childhood in Ohio
    September 15, 2018
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    January 1, 2018
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    March 23, 2017
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  • A Joyful Noise Unto the Lower Garden District
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  • Mardi Gras Report 2017 #1.1
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    February 2, 2017
  • You Never Really Leave Home
    January 17, 2017
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    January 17, 2017
  • The Greatest Truck in the Whole World
    January 12, 2017
  • I Paid for Doubting the Bean
    August 27, 2016
  • Sweet Talk and Hustle on the Easy Streets
    August 27, 2016
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    August 26, 2016
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    June 4, 2016
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    April 22, 2016
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    February 22, 2016
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    January 24, 2016
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    December 19, 2015
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    February 22, 2011
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