Every week, Xy has her students write sentences using vocabulary words — pretty standard stuff, dictated by the school system. This week, one of the…
Pronounce the dot.
Every week, Xy has her students write sentences using vocabulary words — pretty standard stuff, dictated by the school system. This week, one of the…
Signs of the impending holiday in our neighborhood… It’s a little hard to read because of the burglar bars, but the spray-painted message lists the…
We took Jaylene out to Lafitte National Park Saturday afternoon. When we got back, we discovered a window in the back door was broken, and…
While I was writing the previous post, this picture came in via e-mail from Jaylene: That’s Xy in the corner. I note that she seems…
I did it! I finished my novel. It’s not the 50,000 words required by NanoWriMo. It’s only 21,469 words. So it’s not actually long enough…
I’ve been skeptical of Thanksgiving for years. There are two conceptions of Thanksgiving which seem to be etched into my mind from early childhood: The…
Jaylene Marsh came to visit us for Thanksgiving. She drove down from Indianapolis yesterday, and today she took this picture with her phone and e-mailed…
Shontanay, one of the neighbor girls, just came by with a big open wound on the sole of her foot. She said she stepped on…
There were not too many films starting with “E” on my list, so we made short work of this letter. I actively disliked these: The…
Xy and the neighbor girls two years ago: Xy and the neighbor girls last week: Post-K Update:
Last night we had a house party for Adam Wilson, who is running for State Senate in District 4 here in Louisiana. He’s the Green…
Yesterday the IT department here at the university finally delivered my new computer, a Macintosh G5. It was supposed to arrive this summer, but everything…
My knee last Tuesday: My knee on Saturday: My knee today: I’d thought it would be completely healed by now, but it’s not, quite.
I’m at 15,508 words. The month is more than half over. Ideally I should be over 25,000 words at this point. I seem to be…
Speaking of cats, Folds scratched Xy’s face again. Even though I evicted Folds from our bed back in July, Xy has been letting her back…
This inquisitive fellow poked his head over the neighbor’s shed and stared at us for a long while this morning.
In the morning, it’s usually cooler inside our house than it is outdoors. That’s a good thing during the summer. But today, the outside temperature…
My friend Jason Neville put this together from data collected at opensecrets.org and CNN. He couldn’t find a vote total for Peroutka, but I found…
Haven’t been able to watch too many movies lately, but I did finally view the last “D” title on my list. Loved: The Deer Hunter…
Just saw Davy Rothbart and Popcorn Pete of Found Magazine fame at Xavier. Davy came to New Orleans last year on our tenth wedding anniversary,…