Jim Bradshaw
When the first cold front pushes into south Louisiana in late fall, the thoughts of right-thinking people naturally turn to gumbo.
Everyone agrees, or should, that cool weather and gumbo go together like, well, gumbo and rice. But not everyone agrees about what some people say is a tradition and others say is an abomination: Gumbo and potato salad.
Bryan Golden
Everyone encounters adverse circumstances. Some people survive and thrive while others suffer and allow their spirit to be extinguished. It’s not the circumstances that vary, it is the manner in which each individual chooses to respond.
Harold was out for a walk when he came across an old abandoned well shaft. Peering over the edge, he lost his footing and fell to the bottom of the deep well. Miraculously, Harold was unhurt as he landed in the soft dirt at the bottom.
Jim Bradshaw
All the talk of possible chicanery before Tuesday’s election appears to have been only talk, But even so, it was just a new twist on an old story in Louisiana. Not too long ago, eyebrows went up if nobody called foul over a bit of election humbug.
Tales about those days may be embroidered a bit, but they hold at least of germ of something that made some of them believable and all of them cause for a chuckle or a wince, depending upon your viewpoint.
Bryan Golden
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Jim Bradshaw
In the late 1800s newcomers from the American Midwest and Germans settling around Roberts Cove discovered that the south Louisiana prairies were ideal for growing rice — if they could get enough water for their crops.
They soon discovered that even Louisiana’s plentiful rainfall couldn’t be relied on. It fell when it wanted to, not when it was needed, and not always where it was needed.
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