It was my great pleasure to bring in the new year with a fishing trip on January 3rd with the distinguished Dr. Kenneth Klaus, of Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA. Along with him were his two sons, musical geniuses in their own right.
Whenever I see an agent of decay, like fungus, I hear my daddy saying, jokingly, “There’s a fungus among us!” I can’t for the life of me recall what he would have possibly been referring to, because none of us had nail fungus or anything like that. But what some folks might consider just ugly…
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 250,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see it.
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Although missing our loved ones can make the holidays seem sad and lonely, we have to try to keep them with us through our memories. Maybe I will start a new family tradition of asking each of my older children to share one special Christmas memory from when my parents were alive, and the two younger ones a memory of Christmas with us. That way, I can cherish their memories, and help them keep their memories alive, passing them down to their own children one day.
Wednesday it was near freezing and foggy; the next day the wind blew a gale from the south, and the next we’re barefoot and in shirtsleeves. But I’m not just talking about the changes in the weather down here in coastal Louisiana.
CHAPTER 12 – THE BIRTH 1982 – Pregnancy agreed with me, except for the first few months when I often felt queasy but never nauseated enough to toss my cookies. It was spring, the time of new life, and I blossomed in spirit as my belly grew with child. The only “scare” I had was…