Years ago I came to terms with the fact that I wasn’t a normal Louisiana native. Somehow those things that are supposed to run through your blood when you’re born in Louisiana didn’t attach to this particular Cajun-born scribe.
I haven’t officially been diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), though I suspect I do have bouts with it after my experiences of being in southwest Louisiana during Hurricane Laura on Aug. 27 of 2020.
Well, I just recently wrote a column praising the improvement efforts over in Dubach, but I’m going to have to spend a few more words after attending the Louisiana Chicken Festival this weekend.
Some of you older readers may recall the name of South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park, a flamboyant international lobbyist who died this past week. Back in the 1970s, he was intricately involved in the politics of Louisiana.
Every four years there are certainties you can count on during presidential elections. Like clockwork, you go through this routine of excitement, interest, concern and eventually loathing, fatigue and frustration.