Stories and Editorials

Veteran's Day as Bittersweet

From the movie, "The Thin Red Line"...and possibly the book but I haven't read it: "This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it...

This is the Place You Want to Tell People About...and You Kind of Don't!

To be sure, one of this area’s best-kept, secret music venues is the Shreveport House Concert Series. Founded in 2004, the Shreveport...

The Price of Honor – A Documentary on the Honor Killing of Amina and Sarah Said

On the evening of January 1, 2008, the Irving, Texas 911 department received a frantic call from Sarah Said, whose last words were, “Oh...

IN A MOMENT OF TIME

IN A MOMENT OF TIME I was sitting with my back to the door, editing a letter to a client, when I heard a voice say, "Excuse me, but the...

LOVE ON LINE

First Published in , Shreveport, LA, May 23, 1997. (For readers not familiar with Shreveport, Line Ave. is a major thoroughfare; much of...

I Know Where Fat Comes From

First Published in The Times, Shreveport, LA. I Know Where Fat Comes From I have no doubt that this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine will...

A Good Woman Will Unlock Her Man’s Car Door

First published in The Times, Shreveport, LA, November 25, 1994 A Good Woman Will Unlock Her Man’s Car Door Having been single a while, I...

Aren't His Medals Shiny?

Hello? Oh yes, why don't you come on in? I've been expecting you. It isn't often someone comes to visit and talk about Billy. Here,...

On Being Sad

On Being Sad Sadness never ends, but happiness does Brazilian love song “You know, I think I’ve always been sad.” Her words came across...

The Need for Beauty

It’s that moment, that very brief moment, when beauty overtakes us, when we pause in our hasty moving from one spot to another,...

Dating's Dirty Little Secret

Yeah, you’ve done it. Sure you have, at one time or another. The Drive-By. It may have been an afterthought or planned with the precision...

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