Something I’ve struggled with most of my adult life is the fine line between environmental responsibility and the good of mankind. Those of you who have read this dribble for many years will recall that I tend to try to take a moderate approach to environmentalism. I try to position myself somewhere between the Greenpeace... »
Elitist?
Down here where there isn’t a lot of fly fishing or fly fishers, you probably aren’t aware that we of that particular bent are often considered elitist snobs by those who cast bait and lure rods. There’s probably some truth to that, up in the... »
The Will of the People
Washington is not only intent on prolonging the suffering of Louisiana and its people, they also knew the pain they were going to inflict well in advance of the first blow. The president’s own oil spill commission questioned the moratorium on offshore drilling, and were... »
Old Dogs and Puppies
“Watch the old dog. She’ll sense a change far earlier than we do. She’ll raise her head from a nap as if she’s been called, when no one has called her. She’ll go out in the side yard and point herself north and raise... »
Downgrading
You may recall a year or so ago I admitted that I had fallen for the slick advertising and upgraded my cellular phone to one of those fancy-dancy, gosh-wow-did-you-see-that-Ma? touch screen phones. It wasn’t an iPhone. It was a knockoff. But this bad boy had... »

Roger Emile Stouff has been a writer and journalist since 1980, now with the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune in Franklin, Louisiana where he has received numerous state press awards for his column, "From the Other Side," reprinted here. He is the son of Nicholas Stouff, the last traditional chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana and Lydia Gaudet Stouff, a Cajun Belle. (Photo by Sue Davis)