By Nathan Coker
In Featured Slider
Feb 29th, 2024
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articles by MEREDITH MCKINNIEphotography by KELLY MOORE CLARK The ULM Women’s Symposium annually highlights women from across Northeast Louisiana for their individual achievements, professional and personal. The panelists share their stories with ULM students and fellow community members to showcase ...
By Nathan Coker
In Features
Feb 29th, 2024
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article by Meredith McKinniephotography by Kelly Moore Clark “During hard times, come and find me. I’ll hold your hand, and together we will be.” For Geneviève Wetzel, enduring hardship is an opportunity to create a community, summon inner strength, and raise awareness. When her father was diagn...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Feb 29th, 2024
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article by Cindy G. Foust Hello dear friends in our BayouLife family, as together we invite the warmer months of spring into our community. Alas, however, the bitter cold days are still amongst us, especially today as I sit in my big comfy chair and write my column. Donkey watching, of course. I wond...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Icon
Feb 29th, 2024
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article by Georgiann PottspPhotography by Kelly Moore Clark Debbie Hardy Sawyer is no stranger to hard work. She has spent her life doing hard work both to further her career and support her community. An exceptional businesswoman, Debbie developed a stellar business career beginning with retail sale...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Eats
Feb 29th, 2024
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article by VANELIS RIVERAphotography by KELLY MOORE CLARK While some are calling his revival “a big return,” Roy Arthur’s Monroe’s Restaurant is also a reflection of the current local community and aims to bring together some of the old and some of the new. Arthur values family-owned restaurants w...
By Nathan Coker
In AskErin
Jan 31st, 2024
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by Erin Sharplin Love | [email protected] Getting rid of clutter and organizing the essentials isn’t just about devising a new storage system. It should be about figuring out why you are holding on to the stuff in the first place. You might have tried to get organized many times, but you fin...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 31st, 2024
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review by Meredith McKinnie “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” Christmas is a time for reading the classics, or so I believe. I kept Betty Smith’s novel on my shelf for the last few years, […...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 31st, 2024
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review by Meredith McKinnie “Some people were complete in themselves, as if born from the earth or the ocean, like some of the gods. Which was not a compliment. The gods were ruthlessly indifferent to humanity.” Critically-acclaimed author Kate Atkinson had evaded me to this point. I had never heard ...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Outdoors
Jan 31st, 2024
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article by Dan Chason My two least favorite months are February and August. Okay, I said it. I used to love the month of February as it meant pre-spawn bass fishing and deep water crappie fishing, squirrel and rabbit hunting and of course the age old tradition of breaking down deer stands, cameras a...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Health
Jan 31st, 2024
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by Shannon Dahlia, FDN-P I know it’s only February, so spring allergies aren’t yet on your radar. If the pollen count tends to do a number on you, though, getting ahead of it now may be the best approach for making the spring more enjoyable for you. Histamines are chemicals produced by your immune sy...
