Reading The Good Badass Samaritan

Notable podcaster Josh Colvin invited me to read a story for his American Miles: A Roadtrip Podcast. If you’re in a hurry, my story, The Good Badass Samaritan, begins at 45:40. But if you have time listen to the whole … Read More

America’s Next Big Water Park

The location of Missouri’s next proposed water park may surprise you. It’s not in a resort or even a town. But it’s the doorstep to more than five dozen Missouri communities, and three quarters of the state’s population. A few … Read More

Pondhog Pondering

Pondhog Day is coming! Watch for the pondhog. If the pondhog sees her shadow, you have thirty seconds to put her back in the hole and slide off the ice before you fall in.

Slam Dunk

We left Lafayette looking for one more Cajun meal. On recommendation from a good friend, a newspaperman who knows, we stopped at Boutin’s in Carencro. Zydeco salad, crabmeat eggplant and bayou rouge, catfish Acadian and fried green tomatoes. Stuffed to … Read More

Acadian recipes

Dad traveled everywhere. So when he told us one of the most fun events he ever attended was a fais do-do, a Cajun dance party on a Saturday night deep in the bayous outside Lafayette, Louisiana, it stuck in my … Read More

Ca c’est bon.

Sometimes we find pockets of peace in this troubled world. Driving west to Lafayette it was mid afternoon when we reached Baton Rouge. Along the Scenic Highway we found Bellue’s, a nondescript storefront we would have passed had Cheryl not … Read More