When my mother was a widow in her mid-70s, a series of small strokes made it necessary for her to go into an assisted-living facility in a town two hours north of where she and Daddy had lived [...]

On Sunday morning I was walking around on our big back porch, looking at the dark clouds over the neighborhood and wondering whether the folks at Jazz Fest that day were going to get any rain. I’ve had [...]

When I was of Easter-basket toting age, the bunny brought us these fabulous, intricately decorated eggs that my sisters and I spent the morning admiring and comparing and hiding and hunting and hiding again, until they were cracked [...]

One Sunday about 40 years ago, my mother was sitting in the choir at church, getting ready to sing the hymn that came before the preacher said the benediction, when the big back doors of the sanctuary sprang [...]

  Over the years I’ve joined many an exercise class and failed to stay the course, attending only one, two or at the most three sessions before bailing. Except for the time  when I was in my mid-40s [...]

I heard it Saturday at the Super Bowl festivities in Woldenburg Park: Mardi Gras has been cancelled! If the visitor who imparted this news could have seen the crowds at Family Gras in Metairie, she may have assumed [...]