[September 30, 2023] I was only six years old, living in a poor area of Louisiana where money was scarce, and you were rich if you had a spare dollar. Walking along with my best friend Wilson, we came upon a $5 Dollar bill lying in the street. “Lookie thar, Douglas, thar’s a Lincoln just sittin’ without nobody… Read More »
[September 29, 2023] Few things scared me in my years as a kid. Maybe I was too busy doing kid “stuff,” running around with my friends, working at odd jobs around town, playing ball, fishing, swimming, playing in the woods, and just goofing off, to be scared. I did have a fear of getting beat up by the… Read More »
[September 23, 2023] Since before I can even remember growing up, I had a gun, not a toy gun, a real gun. Everyone I knew had at least one gun, usually a shotgun for bird, squirrel, or varmint hunting and maybe a rifle for something bigger. I was anxious to learn how to hit a moving target with… Read More »
[September 21, 2023] Action without consequences. “No consequences” is at the heart of the fat liberation movement in America. Zyanha Bryant, a morbidly obese woman community organizer and BLM activist is now the face of fat liberation. As I understand it, she wants to remove the stigma associated with being fat. “So when I think about what fat… Read More »
[September 20, 2023] Manhood is not a new idea, but it is one that our modern society incorrectly labels toxic. Now, if you know me and read this blog, you will predict with 100% accuracy that I reject the toxicity label because it is simply false, and obviously so. The toxic label is false, and manhood is something… Read More »
[September 18, 2023] It is difficult to write about the corrupt “trans” medical scandal because so many Americans are oblivious to its negative impact on all of us. Corruption in medical institutions is rare, but the destruction it is causing today is real, widespread, and unforgivable. Most of us have heard of the Tuskegee syphilis study experiments, chemical… Read More »
[September 15, 2023] I found the bamboo fishing pole sticking out of the water back along a hidden dirt bank. I was really young, maybe seven years old, when my good friend Albert was going to show me a great fishing hole in the Bayou Bonne Idee just east of town. It was Saturday morning as we agreed… Read More »
[September 10, 2023] Long ago, when I was a tween (not a child but also not a teenager), I was probably 12 years old; I was dropped off by Fanny, my school bus driver, at my home. Walking with my books under my arm, I noticed a used cigarette burning in the ditch out in front of my… Read More »
[September 8, 2023] Here’s a newsflash from the New York Times! You should not play with your kids. In an article* by Edan Lepucki, a mother of three children under ten, she suggests that children don’t need parents for play because it stifles their playtime. This paper was once deservedly called The Old Gray Lady, meaning it had… Read More »
[September 4, 2023] I was very young and did not witness the brave act of one lone man who stood up against the powerful and very dangerous Ku Klux Klan. But the whole town knew, for some were witnesses when the local Marshal blocked the KKK from entering this rural town. It was shortly before I was born,… Read More »