September 2014 Articles

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“Louisiana’s Oldest City Turns 300!”

“Louisiana’s Oldest City Turns 300!” announces the headline on the website of Natchitoches, Louisiana. Natchitoches, the first permanent settlement founded within the borders of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, celebrates this year its Tri-Centennial. Indeed, on a recent visit to the city, I noticed row upon row of blue and white Tri-Centennial flags lining Natchitoches’ Main Street, each of them imprinted with the dates “1714 – 2014” to commemorate this... read more

Just Rambling September 2014

Just Rambling:

Today is September 4th, 2014. One year today since I had my surgery. I still joke with my wife, Donnette, about our trip to Bass Pro a few days before my operation. We had already had my last office visit with Dr. Nanda—the one in which he tells you of all the risks of the surgery with the most severe being death. I kid Donnette about a trip to Branson, Missouri and a cruise to the Caribbean we bought while we were in Bass Pro. I tell her and others in her presence... read more