During the past year, I’ve had many discussions with individuals and business owners regarding the need for an organizational body to assist with the planning of parish and town events. In LaSalle Parish, we have the wonderful LaSalle Economic Development District (LEDD) which has been instrumental ...

It happened just this week. Our forty-threeyear-old electric alarm clock kicked the bucket, and we are having adjustment problems. My husband received ‘old faithful’ in 1981 when he graduated high school, and in reality, it has been a part of his life longer than I have. It has traveled with us into...

I have been asked that question many times but have never addressed it in an article. The subtext of this question is usually something like this: “How do you represent people you think may actually have committed the crime?” That’s a great question and the short answer is that I never ask an indivi...

Dear Rusty: We were married two years ago at age 78 and 81. Do we need to do anything with Social Security? Signed: Blissfully Happy Dear Blissfully H...

Craig Franklin:I know that we think we can’t live without certain things, but in reality we can. We think we can’t live without our cell phones, but w...

I vaguely recall the first time I was coerced into going ‘snipe hunting’. I was young, carefree, and in the 7th grade and had been invited to my frien...