The greatest hindrance to seeing our opportunities is a lack of gratitude for past benefits! As long as we believe that we have gotten where we are because of our greatness, the further from our potential we will slide. We are all products of the graciousness of others in our past, and some in our […]

I’ve written this column from lots of different places and different situations, but this is a new one, the only time I have had to write this column one small half step away from homelessness. I came back from Tennessee with my health much worse off due to the nature of how I spent the […]

Woody Woodpecker, the animated cartoon, sure was a character! Lively, loud, and kinda crazy! And he was modeled after a real and local woodpecker, the Pileated Woodpecker. While Pileated Woodpeckers may be loud, they aren’t as crazy or quite as animated as Woody was. They are, however, the largest of the woodpeckers in our area, […]

I recently moved into a different home, leaving the bayou front for a wooded city block. We will miss the water birds, but we’re already finding a whole new set of birds to enjoy! To me, exploring new places to see what bird species, and other flora and fauna, are around the next corner is […]

I’m not sure if it’s a complaint, and it certainly is not a boast, but in my forty plus years on this planet I’ve experienced pain beyond my years. Since my mid twenties I have had a variety of pain, mainly in the legs and back which was not able to be eliminated by conventional […]