Thursday, January 22, 2015

Laska by Frank Desprez

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Anyone who reads this blog knows I like poetry.   Here's an achingly beautiful recitation by cowboy poet Joel Nelson of  Frank Desp...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Matters Familia - Ephemera

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I used to have a little online bookstore. I loved venturing out to libraries, Goodwill and Salvation Army stores looking for books to s...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

The Tractor

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Photos by Randy Laird.  Used with permission. It stood motionless, the Deere at the edge of the woods, as though waiting f...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Journey

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I spent the day enfolded in the car, searching for reasons not to go back to the house, yearning for something I couldn't name....
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Poverty Point - Seeing History in a Whole New Way

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The monumental earthworks at Poverty Point were built by laborers who carried 300,000 cubic yards of dirt in fifty-pound baskets. The site...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Winter

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Winter is a sigh, a surrender a secret whispered in the creak of trees, bones that bend and sometimes break in the breeze. She shuff...
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A Winter's Tale

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In the quiet morning beneath the cashmere calm, behind the dog's soft snoring and the purring knead of pinked flesh, a chill threat...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Natchez Kittens in Desperate Need of Home

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Have you seen the “W” kitties? They have lived in the NACHS Shelter for most of their little lives. Until a week ago ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Suicide is Painless

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Suicide is Painless People will go to any lengths for fame, won't they? In the May, 1800 edition of a Natchez Newspaper, Thomas T...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Childhood Memory Resurfaces in a Cast-Iron Coffin

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A guest blog today by a new friend, Ann Dupont from Shreveport, Louisiana.         The story I am about to share is true, historical...