Jim Bradshaw
When officer Plais Horn saw a man climb off a freight train in Opelousas in March 1917, he thought his sharp eye and good memory had helped catch a notorious bank robber.
The Opelousas Star-Progress called the arrest of the man, identified as Joe Davis alias Bill Butler, “probably the biggest capture in the history of local criminal authorities in recent years.”
Bryan Golden
Do you fret over the past? Do you worry about the future? Do you put things off until you get around to it? Do you avoid dealing with problems? Do you spend today focused on yesterday or tomorrow? Do you spend time worrying? Now is the time to take control of your life.
Now is what matters. Yesterday is over and can’t be changed. Nothing can be accomplished tomorrow because you don’t live in tomorrow. Every day is today. Now is when you can get things done. Now is the time to be proactive.
Jim Bradshaw
I have a mind’s-eye vision of Jean Gaudet as a crusty old Frenchman, sun-burnt, with dark, work-hardened hands, capable of doing what had to be done to wrest a simple life from the soil. He was probably an independent old cuss. He was more than 60 years old in 1636, when he and his brother, Aubin, migrated to Acadie, traveling to a colony still far from a certain thing.
Bryan Golden
Giving up may seem tempting when things aren’t going well. If you are feeling tired, frustrated, worn out, or disheartened, giving up on a goal is appealing. Regardless of how drained you are, you should never give up because you only fail when you give up.
Jim Bradshaw
August has always been my least favorite month, and I suspect I am not alone.
The experts tell us that its hot, humid weather makes this the most physically stressful month of the year in south Louisiana. August temperatures get as warm as the body’s temperature, or warmer. That means people who work or play outside can’t depend on the air around them to cool them. That makes our bodies work harder to cool themselves — and I can testify that the older the body, the harder the work.
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