We are likely in the crush of the Christmas season. Perhaps things are just as, if not more, busy and hectic than they’ve been all year. We feel pressed into a dizzying pace to address the countless things to be done for work, for our families, and the additional requirement of gifts and activities ...

In my 56 years on this earth, I’ve had some incredible experiences. My definition of an incredible experience is being part of an event that so profoundly affected me that it left me wanting to experience it again. I believe in my heart that the Jena High School football program was just part of tha...

We may recall Al Gore, in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, focused on climate change. The film included a moving clip of a ‘sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death’ suggesting that global warming would cause the extinction of the polar bear population. But Gore doesn’t talk about ...

Statistics reported by central Louisiana’s economic development agency Louisiana Central recently showed that 85% of all jobs in LaSalle Parish come f...

We’re all aware of the killing of Sarah Beckstrom, a West Virginia National Guard member. The other National Guard member wounded in the shooting has ...

Southern grandmas aren’t like other grandmothers across this vast continent – especially when it comes to their sweet little grand babies. While the t...