Friday, October 20, 2017

The Forest in Fall

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She walks in dappled brown. The trees, emboldened in their bare embrace, reach down, carress her freckled frown from their anchored height...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Cherry Grove

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Cherry Grove: A Ghost Tale All around the old place, the dead visit. The day he opened up the trunk of that sweetgum tree,...
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Friday, October 6, 2017

More on South-West by a Yankee - Treatment of Slaves 1835

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A description of Natchez, written in 1835 by Joseph Holt Ingraham. Offered without comment: "Many of the planters are nort...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Cocodrie Bayou

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I drive through miles of cotton fields. White tufts erupt from bolls like butterflies from cocoons. The Louisiana delta spreads out,...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Fake News by Vernon Rust

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Vernon Rust There are writers, and then there are storytellers.   Vernon Rust KNOWS how to tell a story, and his memoire, Fake News is...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Southwest by a Yankee

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Painting: Circa 1835 Natchez on the Hill by James Tooley So a couple of days ago, I typed "Natchez" into the search engine...
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Friday, August 4, 2017

Time Enough

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At your cousin's wedding your mother and her sisters talked of husbands no longer there. Their eyes whispered, "Do n...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Just passed 200,000 hits

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My blog hit the 200,000-hits mark this week.  Celebration underway.
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Unbearable Happiness

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Unbearable Happiness So here we are, all cozy warm and wrapped in secret dread that this might work and now instead of rejection...
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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Sparkle & Twink

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Blues and Green

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Blues and green by  Elodie Pritchartt The wind blew through yesterday. Rain beat the petals off the flowers on ...