Keep it simple.

Keep it simple.

You all know I’m an avid American Idol watcher. When it comes to singers/musicians, I tend to have opinions. Some of it due to my own personal taste and some of it due to living with a Grade-A musician for going on 17 years. He has rubbed off on me a bit. But,...
Movies can make a difference.

Movies can make a difference.

There are some movies that absolutely changed my life.  Amazing that images and stories on the big screen can do such a thing. I’m told that at a very young age, I wept and wept over The Yearling.  My mother said I cried for some time and had to be comforted. I...
I’m coming to grips with it.

I’m coming to grips with it.

(A friend mentioned this quote to me this past weekend. It really made me stop and think for a minute.) I’m sure this will be the first post of many about hittin’ the big age-that-we-not-mention. Yeah, I’m there. I don’t like it. But, the first...
Stranded

Stranded

Yes, we are stranded at home … at least for the rest of the day. Schools are closed due to inclement weather, mainly freezing rain. Roads are closed due to ice.  Southern Louisianians can barely drive in 74-degree weather, so icy roads would have been a...