New Orleans My household is not a huge fan of college football. My son represents in this area and watches the local teams with his grandfather pretty regularly. We don’t have a working TV downstairs so there is no tradition of watching football on Thanksgiving Day in the way that I can remember from …
Category: Personal Writings
Border Lands
New Orleans As a post-turkey break and some relief from being a witness to the LSU-Arkansas game, watched in the midst of all of our Arkansas family, the son and I snuck off to the movies to see No Country for Old Men made by the Coen brothers (Fargo fame) based on the book …
Factoids
New Orleans Here are some interesting factoids that have crossed my path recently: * Of the estimated 7.3 Million undocumented workers in the United States now, the leading job classifications where we will find such workers are in the following areas according to the Pew Hispanic Center: o 436,000 Cooking o 400,000 Construction o …