By Nathan Coker
In Center Block
Sep 7th, 2022
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with Kerry Heafner Louisiana’s warm and humid climate sets the stage for an impressive array of mushrooms to be observed, and the roles they play in our gardens and both natural and cultivated landscapes cannot be underemphasized. So, this month, let’s...
By Nathan Coker
In Center Block
Sep 7th, 2022
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article by Meredith McKinnie March marked a milestone. I turned 40. I remember my 30th birthday. I had a large, overly populated party at two locations. I felt high on life and anxious for a new decade. My twenties consisted of hard changes. My thirtie...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Outdoors
Sep 7th, 2022
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article by Dan Chason I once said that I think that my one and only older brother starting picking on me while I was still in the womb. I was 2 1/2 years younger than my brother Steve. I was a chunky young man, and wore Huskies and my brother wore...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Profile
Sep 7th, 2022
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This fall, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City will welcome one of Monroe’s own – recent Neville High School graduate Kam Buttitta. PHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY MOORE CLARKARTICLE BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE Kam recognized her passi...
By Nathan Coker
In Fishing with Kenny
Sep 7th, 2022
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article by Kenny Covington Over the years I have fished in about every weather condition you can imagine. I have fished in tornado warnings, with hurricanes approaching, sleet, freezing rain, high winds, brutally cold and hot temperatures. You name the...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Sep 7th, 2022
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by Sherman Alexie “I can’t blame my parents for our poverty because my mother and father are the twin suns around which I orbit. My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first po...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Sep 7th, 2022
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by Kiese Laymon “Thanking Jesus for getting us through situations we should have never been in was one of our family’s superpowers” I first heard of Kiese Laymon’s work in a book review podcast and was immediately drawn into his discussion of revision....
By Nathan Coker
In Center Block
Sep 7th, 2022
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article by Guy Miller One of my major hobbies is living history- recreating how people lived and worked in the past for present day people to see and to learn. Although I have and still can portray characters in any general time period over almost 300...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Icon
Sep 6th, 2022
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Living Ledbetter photography by Kelly Moore Clarkarticle by Georgiann Potts Dee McDonald Ledbetter comes by her sense of style honestly. She literally grew up surrounded by dapper dressers. Both her parents (Carol and Jesse McDonald) and her maternal g...
By Nathan Coker
In AskErin
Sep 6th, 2022
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by Erin Love Goodbye summer! A new school year is here, and that means hectic schedules, alarm clocks, and piles of paper. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up, but with a little organization, you can create order out of the chaos and transition from s...