The girls across the street don’t live with their parents. Dad’s in jail, and the girls are being raised by their paternal grandmother. I don’t…
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The girls across the street don’t live with their parents. Dad’s in jail, and the girls are being raised by their paternal grandmother. I don’t…
Tonight I helped Donika, one of the girls who lives across the street, with her math homework. Normally Xy does this, but the subject was…
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…
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…
Xy and the neighbor girls two years ago: Xy and the neighbor girls last week: Post-K Update:
One of our exterior doors fell apart earlier this year. It had been deteriorating for a while, and finally I dismantled it. Fortunately it doesn’t…
Even as I write this, the house across the street is on fire.
Had tea with the fabulous Heather Weathers at Bayou Coffee. Painted the alcove off our hallway a bright blue. There’s actually a long story here,…
Donika, Crystal & Shontanay do a little computer work for Xy.
Today, just after noon, a teenage boy was shot in the head just a block and a half from our house. He’s dead now. There…
One of the neighbor girls was over at our house tonight, helping Xy water the garden. She’s three years old, cute as a button, and…