Living Rootless

Bosque Redondo Memorial, New Mexico Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here . The cry When I heard the woman's cry, it was terrib...

The Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, had a powerful impact on me. I wrote Parts 1 and 2 to that story, but hadn't y...

The Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, had a powerful impact on me. I wrote Parts 1 and 2 to that story, but hadn't yet...

You never know what the standouts of a festival or a trip are going to be. This was true for the International Festival . One fun th...

Sunday was the last day of the International Festival. International Festival 2015, Lafayette, Louisiana   Corey Ledet, Internati...

For the heck of it, I counted how many people filed past me in the space of 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon at the stage in front of the c...

Connie G. at International Festival 2015, Lafayette, Louisiana. International Festival 2015, Lafayette, Louisiana Internatio...

Vieux Farka Toure, International Festival, Lafayette, Louisiana. 2015. Vieux Farka Toure, International Festival, Lafayette, Loui...

Important dates in Washington, Louisiana Washington, Louisiana, is the third oldest settlement in Louisiana. From the late 1700s, the ...

Gah! Louisiana toe biter. The gentleman at the Eunice wings place called this a German cockroach, and when I kept sputtering about ...

Credit: Amazon Hearkening back to a time when I was a book slut , reading whatever happened to be sitting on a table or on a shelf o...

Green lizard, Opelousas, Louisiana. April 2015. I've seen and heard more interesting things outside my Opelousas windows in six w...

Lake Martin, Louisiana. Sunset, March 2015. Superficially, Lake Martin is unprepossessing. But as you look closer, with every visit, ...

Mural in progress, Abbeville, Louisiana. March 2015. It's cool to see a mural in the making. Makes me think of how many eons we...