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…

- James Lee

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 …

- James Lee

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

- James Lee

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…

- James Lee

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…

- James Lee

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…

- James Lee

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…

- James Lee

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

- James Lee

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

- James Lee