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The scents of daffodils and tulips. ...

[quote]And it isn't just baseball. It's basketball, soccer, swim, cheerleading.[/quote] Don't you dare leave out ice hockey! A friend was dating a divorced Dad and she told me about a trip they were going to take from North Carolina (a bastion of Ice hockey) to the D.C. metro area for a tourname...

I've visited Iceland twice decades ago. Way back when they were becoming a major manufacturer of aluminum because their power was cheaper than anybody else's anywhere. We met one of the engineers who was setting up the geothermal to electric grid, he had been educated in Germany (I speak German) s...

My husband served there close to the end of the Viet Nam war and says there's nothing new with the balloons. It is seasonal, and the winds from the north are a summer thing. ...

Certain minorities have not been noted as willing to donate organs from dead bodies, much less to share kidneys with kin folk. ...

We've been gone from Louisiana for not enough years. I still hate the OMV for the hours I spent standing in lines, year after year. (Almost as much as New Orleans city hall, Entergy and the S&WB.)...

I am allergic to fire ant bites. I have taken the desensitizing shots. Are comparable shots not available for peanut or shellfish allergies?...

Thank you for this. And to Amazon for the list and descriptions of his other many NOLA books. ...

In Houston, a dealership near where I worked had two used Rolls for sale.Both were the cost of a new Mustang. I talked to the salesman and asked why he didn't take one of them for his personal car. His answer: I can afford it now, but I can't afford the repair parts or the guy's hourly who does th...

There is a sad irony when an LSU fan tries to play the[quote]Rampant inbreeding[/quote] card. The PBS station in NOLA years ago did a detailed look at those problems in Louisiana. Most memorable to me was the family condemned to blindness before they were 21. Vivid photos of the children leadi...