Small Town News

The older I get, the more I’ve learned that when a friend says “I’m fine,” there’s usually more to the story. A few days ago, a dear friend and I were swapping updates. Her daughter is facing a tough season —...

When we moved to Grand Cane, we looked at building a house on family land just outside of the village. My heart soared as I pictured a farmhouse with a long winding porch encircling our home, cows in the nearby pasture grazing contentedly, and even...

Okay, I’m writing another story about my friends Savanna and Jordan, the family with six kids. When I offered to go with her to Austin, I spent the night at her house so we could wake up bright and early to get on the road. For this story, I...

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY No matter the time of the year, people are sniffling and sneezing. It could be allergies, the flu, or any other sickness currently going around. Around here, we call it the Louisiana Crud, a...

If you’ve been keeping up with my Rebel posts, you’ll agree she is a mess. She’s exasperating, frustrating, and all the other negative -ating words that you can think up. But then she walks up to us and sets her chin on a leg as...

  Remember my friends Savanna and Jordan, the family with six kids? They dropped by for a short visit, just twenty-four hours. John and I got a taste of grandchildren—an empty house transformed into a beautiful, chaotic mess, then quiet...

I said this just last month—I’m a planner, that’s my happy place. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I make a list and check it off. Not to beat a dead horse, but I’ve got the accounting degree, I stayed the course, and checked...

As I’ve grown older, I’ve gotten more cynical. Soon I’ll be shaking my fist and yelling, “You kids get off my lawn!” Although the only kids that have been on my lawn are my own, so maybe not. But I’ve embraced...

  You know that woman you hardly know, but you’d love to be friends with her? She seems funny and smart and just so cool. But she has other friends and you travel in different circles, and you just think that she probably needs no more...