A Day In The Life

For nearly a month we have wrestled with the impact of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Most of the time, we have watched on television, night an...

Last night a Hurricane Katrina evacuee gave a testimony. We were meeting concerning our response to the diaster. The evacuee told how her so...

My favorite shoe repair shop closed.  I scanned the phone book to discover that there is only one remaining shoe repair shop in our city. On...

When I returned home from the National Baptist Convention yesterday, I returned with 10 new shirts. They are multi-colored with my last name...

Joslyn and I are attending the National Baptist Convention this week in Atlanta. It is a city of high rise buildings whose pinnacles seem to...

My wife Joslyn has always said that computers were going to be a curse on us. Now she's partially vindicated in the wake of Hurricane Ka...

I went to the makeshift shelter in our community for Hurricane Katrina evacuees. The number has grown here to 2,200 in one place. Yesterday,...

Our city is filled with people who have come here from South Louisiana seeking refuge. Many are sleeping in cars, trailers, and tents. About...

Joslyn and I have been up watching the path of Hurricane Katrina. It is moving toward New Orleans at the moment, expected to make landfall w...

Joslyn and I have just finished the recruitment week in our youth leadership program called Top Gun. We visited schools, talked to parents a...

I'm still trying to understand yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in California recognizing two lesbians as the mothers of a set of tw...

I enjoy the fine culinary tastes of the best of our people, but every now and then I get a hunger for some real food. What's "re...

I took the Honda CRX to get that wheel replaced yesterday. What was supposed to be a simple wheel replacement and alignment cost more, but i...

I like to drive a little red Honda CRX, 1985. It's old but it runs and it's paid for. My wife drives the new SUV Expedition. Someo...

The police surrounded my office after the alarm went off. Our district association has been meeting this week, but I had to skip out when I ...

I'm still laughing at myself. I know everyone present got a good laugh because I still chuckle everytime I think about it. I went to a c...

After a week at the Youth Encampment at Southern University, I had a chance to take a full bath, instead of just a shower yesterday. The sho...

I'm attending the Louisiana Baptist Youth Encampment this week in Baton Rouge. It's a week long retreat for Louisiana youth to refle...

I bought a case of popcorn yesterday. It's the kind in the packages complete with the oil and popcorn salt in the same package. I buy po...

A group of young people from across the nation come to our city every year to spend a week repairing the homes of the poor and the needy. ...