THE BOOKS

Made in the Shade

It’s been four years since I planted the first set of trees in the yard.

When I was growing up, you may recall, the house I live in now belonged to my grandparents. In those days, the west side of the house scarcely caught a ray of sunshine. A massive pecan tree, a big . . . → Read More: Made in the Shade

“The Great Sadness”: Sequel to “Native Waters” is out!

Those of you kind folks who read and enjoyed my first memoir Native Waters should know the sequel is out! The Great Sadness: Indigenous Angling and the Loss of Home takes up where the first book leaves off, and brings us through to early 2006. . . . → Read More: “The Great Sadness”: Sequel to “Native Waters” is out!

An Author’s Christmas in May

Arrived yesterday!

Relic

Blow up your TV, throw away your paper

Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

Try and find Jesus on your own…

(John Prine)

I swear, the television barely gets turned on these days around our house.

There’s just not pecan we really care . . . → Read More: Relic

The Shadowfire Blog

Just to reintroduce…

At the right hand side of the home page there’s a column containing all the blog posts from my new website Shadowfire Books. Myself and my co-conspirators Ken Brown and Gary Drinkwater will be making posts on a regular basis, dealing with the “writing life” and our own works as authors . . . → Read More: The Shadowfire Blog

Shameless self-promotion!

But a guy’s gotta make a living, ya folla?

At the left, you’ll find links to all my books at Amazon. The links are to paperback versions; all are also available as Kindle e-books as well! Amazon will, over the next couple weeks, update the links to show both paperback and e-book versions on . . . → Read More: Shameless self-promotion!

Good Week

In case you hadn’t heard, the third Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show was a rip-roarin’ success.

Despite the weather, we welcomed 41 boats and their owners to the bayou side the weekend of April 20-22. Some 20-25 more participants didn’t make it due to the threat of severe thunderstorms, not necessarily here, but on . . . → Read More: Good Week

Voices and Silence

This weekend, Good Lord willing and the Creek don’t rise, the third Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show will welcome a whole passel of people to Franklin.

Come out and visit us! We expect as many as 50, maybe even more, wonderful wooden boats on Parc sur la Teche.

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“I hear there’s trout up . . . → Read More: Voices and Silence

Expansions

Well, come this Sunday, “Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection” will begin broadcasting nationally.

A buncha stations across the United States have already picked it up, a quick Google search reveals.

In case your memory is as unreliable as mine, that’s the Louisiana Public Broadcasting documentary I co-wrote and narrated back in 2011 and aired . . . → Read More: Expansions

Unprecedented

My humble thanks are in order to the Franklin Masons lodge for including me in a group of awards presented Tuesday.

I was honored and grateful to receive recognition for my work here at the newspaper and outside in attempting to grow and improve this community.

The same goes for journalists as cops: If . . . → Read More: Unprecedented