I know you've all been anxiously waiting for my take on the MTV reality program "Jersey Shore," or as I like to call it, "Guidos." (Or at the very least, StPauliGirl commented that she wanted to know.) The double premiere of the first two episodes was...

Thanksgiving came and went, and so did visiting family members. But for me, the big new experience this holiday weekend was going shooting. On Friday, Butch and his former ROTC cohort Gene took the hubbs and Butch's daughter Emily and I for a...

You may have seen bumper stickers saying, "Keep Austin Weird." There aren't any such mottoes about Louisiana, and that's because weirdness in Louisiana is about as endangered as nutria. On Saturday, Kara and I went to experience some genuine Louisiana...

My dear friend and former roommate Amanda, known to nearly 100,000 YouTube viewers as Flight Attendant, came to visit for a few days. She's the first of a series of visitors who will come during our last six or so months in Louisiana (!). So now that...

Here is me as Meg Fright of the imaginary rock and roll zombie combo (zombo) the Fright Stripes, based of course on the real life rock and roll combo the White Stripes. The hubbs doesn't like to be pictured on this blog, but he was Jack Fright. (I...