The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and….

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long..

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match….

The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road t….

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the India….

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, an….

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from t….

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head..

Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm….

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let ….