My grandmother’s quilting frames took up the entirety of the back bedroom. In fact, they were balanced on the bed steads, the dresser and anything else that would keep the rickety wooden frames relatively level.
Aside from the loss of life, perhaps the most tragic part about the recent shootings on Grambling State University’s campus was that nobody was surprised they happened.
In the middle of a pandemic, and on the backside of a hurricane that smashed through a swath of the country from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to New York, the nation prepares to remember the 20th anniv
In the western movies, the cavalry always came to the rescue with trumpets blaring, banners flying and soldiers wearing snappy uniforms decked out in plenty of fancy gold braid.
We had a discussion in the newsroom the other afternoon about the idiosyncrasies of the English language. I’ll make my confession now: I don’t like grammar.
My father grew up in New Orleans. So, about this time every summer, we made our annual trek to visit my South Louisiana grandparents. It was never a fun trip.