New Orleans       Where have all of the heroes gone?  It’s a great social and cultural question, even for someone like me, who believes in the “folk” or people part of the phrase, but not the “hero” thing.  That’s just me and our work, but I understand why people want there to be heroes, just …

Marble Falls       The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi is a powerful and disturbing book about the killing of Emmett Till in Sunflower County in and around Drew, Mississippi on August 28, 1955.  The physical barn is still there, and it is where the killing was done.  The Till story is …

            New Orleans       Jet-lagged or not, my son and I dragged ourselves down to the Smoothie King Arena to see an NBA game between our New Orleans Pelicans and the legendary Golden State Warriors, formerly from Oakland, and now San Francisco in the Mission Bay Area.  The NBA has a newish marketing and promo …