By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Jun 27th, 2016
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The Love for Our Pets article by Cindy G. Foust Happy 4th of July, BayouLife readers as we begin our crossover to the “other half” of the year that includes months filled with back-to-school, football and big family holidays. I wish time would slow down, but instead, it continues to march on during t...
By Nathan Coker
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Jun 3rd, 2016
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article and illustration by Lou Davenport Cats. I can’t think of many times in my life that there hasn’t been a cat around. I don’t go deliberately to get a cat, yet they find ME! When I was about four years old I found two white kittens that I believe someone left in our yard. […]...
By Nathan Coker
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Jun 3rd, 2016
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Is a Destination Wedding Right for You? article by Karen Snowdy Every wedding is a destination. When you have family and friends dispersed around the country, it only makes sense to choose somewhere in the middle or somewhere different all together. It most cases, it is quite intimate. However, it c...
By Nathan Coker
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Jun 2nd, 2016
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article by Paul Lipe I REMEMBER the time my wife, Linda and I visited our daughter, Mary Linda, at her apartment in Jackson, Mississippi. Mary Linda was in her first year of medical school and was so excited, because she had just received her stethoscope and a blood-pressure measuring apparatus. An...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Kidz
Jun 2nd, 2016
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Comforting Your Child in a Tough Situation article by Cindy G Foust When I got the text message that this month was the bridal issue for our BayouLife readers, I simply stared at my phone. Then I carried my tired self to my office to stare at my computer. Crickets. Followed by long, glassy-eyed stare...
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 ...
