Ever heard of “Christmas in July?” Well, if Santa’s listening on this last day of June, how about: • An End to Spam Followers. Seriously, I will PAY for Twitter if it means I can review new followers without fearing my kid will see full-frontal naked people. I mean, c’mon. (A conspiracy theorist might even suggest [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
So Long, Farrah
Pardon the cliche, but it’s hard for this Texas gal not to note the passing of Farrah Fawcett without feeling it’s the end of an era. As a child growing up in East Texas in the ’70s, Farrah represented to me everything glamorous, modern, grown-up. And she had that soft Texas accent which wasn’t all [...]
June 23, 2009
A Taste of Texas
This is a sign on the front door of the historic Po-Po Restaurant in Welfare, Texas. I find the fried chicken and onion rings to be well worth the wait myself.
June 22, 2009
Requiem for a Greek Revival
ARCHIVE To give you get a better idea of how the old house looks today, here’s a link to a recent picture of The Cottage on Flickr.com by a Mr. Greenjeans. As for the title, I think now that it should have been called “The House of Many Sorrows” or something alluding more to the [...]
June 22, 2009
Postscript: Requiem for a Greek Revival
For years, I’ve wrestled with the many stories that I wove together for this single article. Two of them in particular stay on my mind, but in very different ways. More on one of them in a moment… But first, a bit of personal anecdote. For a long time, I thought I discovered The Cottage [...]
June 18, 2009
A Marriage Story: Anne & Ed Price
One afternoon in March, 1947, a recent college graduate named Ed Price rolled into Baton Rouge on a bus form Tuscaloosa, Alabama. At the tender age of twenty four, he had already stormed Omaha Beach and helped liberate Paris as an infantryman in the second World War. After leaving the bus station, he walked to the Daily Advocate–as the Baton Rouge newspaper was named at the time–where he was to join the editorial staff.
