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By Nathan Coker
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Apr 28th, 2016
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How an interior designer is combining her eye for details with her daughter’s marketing savvy to take the custom design experience into the digital millennium. article by Michael DeVault product photography by Henry McCoy | portrait by Martin G Meyers When Mary Katherine Russell graduated from LSU, s...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 27th, 2016
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article and illustration by Lou Davenport Icon. By definition, “a person or thing that is revered. A person who is very admired.” I wanted to write this column about my personal icon, my Mom, Carolyn Turner Williams.  I only got to have her in my life a little over 20 years, but every one of [&hellip...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 27th, 2016
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I REMEMBER the day I met Jim Valvano. For those readers who are not followers of college basketball, Valvano was the charismatic coach of the North Carolina State Wolfpack, a team that surprised everyone by winning the 1983 NCAA championship. It was my good fortune to spend some time with this promin...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 27th, 2016
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The Value of Having Parents That Weren’t Perfect article by Cindy G Foust May is here, which means we are nearly half way through this calendar year (I’m blowing out of the starting gate this month with a rhyme.) Time is flying at the rate of a speeding bullet, and we find our BayouLife community [&h...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 27th, 2016
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by Meredith McKinnie It was a fresh out of college Southern fairytale. He proposed; she said yes; everyone rejoiced, well…everyone but me. I remember the day I saw the Facebook post from her mother announcing the engagement. I was aghast, and mad, and frankly, disappointed. She was only twenty years ...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 5th, 2016
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Summer camps aren’t just for the outdoorsy. Kids who like science and technology have a place to go, too, and it’s not as far away as parents might think. Inspire your child to reach for the stars at Space Camp. This gateway to imagination is little more than a car ride away. by Michael DeVault [&hel...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 5th, 2016
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“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.” –Henry David Thoreau article by Michael DeVault Within a day, you’ve forgotten the cell phone, the distractio...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 5th, 2016
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Michelle Nussbaumer’s Ceylon et Cie is layered with European antiques, tribal headdresses, Murano glass chandeliers and all of Nussbaumer’s personal collections. BY MARÉ BRENNAN | PHOTOGRAPHY | BY MARTIN G MEYERS Wanderlust is defined as the irresistibly strong desire to travel or wander. And wanderl...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 5th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie Sixteen years ago, I made the decision to not attend a popular college four hours south and instead stayed home and went to ULM, an institution only one year removed from its former name as Northeast Louisiana University. My best friend made the same decision. And admitte...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 29th, 2016
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Nobody Can Do Everything, But Everyone Can Do Something article by Cindy G. Foust | photo by Gaeb Cardinale So, I had this column written two weeks ago on a completely different subject and changed my mind last minute about what I wanted to write about. Well, okay, that’s not entirely true, maybe I d...