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What's in the News?

One of the ways that I try to control my anxiety is by limiting my exposure to the news. I am a J-school grad so I can't just bury my...

Those three supercharged months—marked by freedom and possibility and some life-changing moment of love or lust or longing for something...

Taking a break from telling my stories to sing the praises of an amazing story I just enjoyed on television. So many of my friends...

In the early 2000s, I worked at a PR agency that was owned by a local Democratic elected official. One morning as I was driving to work,...

When I was a kid, I thought they were called Bomb Fires. That was before we moved to the Mississippi Coast where fires on the beach were...

Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of...

My short list of all-time favorite television shows include The West Wing and Sesame Street. There are many shows I like a lot and...

If the world-wide pandemic doesn't get you, the unsurvivable storm surge will. At some point you start to feel like everything in the...

Last year at Christmastime, my husband said to me that he thought, given how volatile the President can be, and the coming year being an...

Did I fall for a cosmetic's online marketing campaign? Why, yes, yes I did. I honestly try not to click on those facebook makeup videos...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.