[July 12, 2024] A pet is one of the most beautiful things a kid can have. Pets return the affection you give them, provide company when you are lonely and are loyal. They also never complain, betray you, call you names – they are always there for you. As a toddler, my dog was a Cocker Spaniel and… Read More »
[July 7, 2024] With a quick motion, I was dunked underwater by Preacher John at the Southern Baptist Church of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, in the Fall of 1961. He gently bent me backward and then straight up with one hand over my mouth and nose and the other on my upper back and said, “I baptize you in… Read More »
[June 16, 2024] I was reeling in a largemouth bass as hard as my little hands could work the fishing rod. And I was scared of falling out of the boat and into the deep lake water where my weak swimming ability would surely put an end to my life. I’m now a Boomer-Geezer American, raised by combat… Read More »
[March 4, 2024] Amala Ekpunobi has done it again with a video (link here) showing a “trans woman” telling the world that “her” dog is transgender. Of course, all sane people know this to be impossible, but the reason I highlight the idea, other than it becoming popular, is that this is what happens when good people fail… Read More »
Letters to My Granddaughter, Epilogue [November 20, 2024] Here is some good news. That skinny small-town boy from the Deep South – and born on the bayou (like the 1969 CCR song) – turned out okay. I would marry and have two children; the happiest days of my life were their birth and their growing up. Nothing is… Read More »
[December 21, 2023] I’m convinced our human relationship with dogs is magical. Not magical like a flying dragon or the Loch Ness monster magical, but magical like extraordinary, irresistible, and amazing. We usually think of animals as social creatures, but within their own species and while that is undeniably true, dogs have a stronger social attraction to humans… Read More »
[December 4, 2023] My great aunt Marie Tabor was a beautiful woman, tall, energetic, smart, articulate, motivated, and dedicated to my Mom. She was the sister of my maternal Bigmama (Grandmother Blankenship). Aunt Rea lived her entire life in Little Rock, Arkansas, in a classic upscale neighborhood and was a hairdresser. She had no children, which may be… Read More »
[November 7, 2023] It was a big big room, dark and eerily quiet. I entered the first-grade classroom on the first day in the autumn of 1959 in a little town with no traffic lights, Mer Rouge, LA., deep in the antebellum south. The teacher showed an 8mm color home video of her class from the previous school… Read More »
[October 27, 2023] “You’re average at best.” So begins one of America’s most famous and well-respected image consultants, Kevin Samuels. He shot to popularity for his advice, targeted mainly at black women, but applies across all races and cultures. I first heard of the “godfather,” as he is affectionately known in the dating market, from a young man… Read More »
[October 21, 2023] “Old Red” was the best coonhound (a Redbone Hound) on this side of the Mississippi River, and I was happy to know Billy, his owner, and I often went hunting with him and his dog. All three of us were each eight years old, regularly went dove hunting together, successfully, I might add, and we… Read More »