It’s easy to be thankful for the obvious blessings in life – family, friends, food, shelter, health, opportunity, prosperity, and good...

When New Orleans natives leave home, people say, sooner or later, like homing pigeons, they find their way back. For me it was both...

Fifty years ago on September 20, 1967 a naïve young woman boarded the Spanish freighter, Mar Egeo, at a New Orleans wharf for a two-week...

My End-of-the-year reflections: The highest calling in life is TO BE CALLED – to add meaningfully to the warp and weft of the fabric of...

"Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville..." Those words of French poet Paul Verlaine have touched my soul many times...