20Oct

People ask me if I miss it. I think they are surprised when I say no

Almost 100,000 people yelling, there to watch modern gladiators. I was there to witness and tell the story. People wonder if I miss it.

18Oct

Bring me a rose in the wintertime

I went out Sunday and took photos of trees against sunny skies, and then I saw this under my apartment window. It reminded me of a song.

17Oct

Long ago, I saw the “New Bridge,” as some Baton Rouge folks still call it, as a work in progress. Click through: What’s old is new again.

15Oct

Let’s call this a test of the power of the internet. Maybe of appealing to someone’s boredom or ennui. Possibly the power of friendship.

14Oct

A college football program that hasn’t won a postseason game since 2002 and lost every game it played in 2023 once had stars who still shine.

13Oct

One of Saturday’s college football games took me down memory lane and reminded me of how much context matters when it comes to great plays.

13Oct

There are worlds where style and grammar are everything. This is not about them. This is about where there’s so much more editors must do.

12Oct

Don Draper said it in the “Mad Men” world of advertising: “Stop writing for other writers.” I heard it long before the show ever aired.

11Oct

Given a chance for a do-over in how I’ve done journalism, I’d probably want to break the rules even more often in my writing than I did.