Keep Quiet, Children!

Each year on Christmas Eve, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Cologne, Germany hosted a Living Crèche, what you and I know as a nativity scene or manger scene.

Universal Transfer Pathways approved

The Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) Dec. 13 approved new Universal Transfer Pathways at all public institutions, which are expected to launch for students statewide in Fall 2024.

Book Banning in Louisiana!

Is there a widespread effort here in Louisiana to band certain books? As many of you know, I published books, and am an avid reader. In all my years living here in the Bayou state, I can’t remember any effort to control what books are available in our local libraries. But this has now changed.

THE COUNTRY WRITER By John Moore

A Southerner’s View of Then and NowAs a young kid, I thought that every family did exactly the same things ours did. That included what and how we did Christmas.Turned out, there were two ways to approach collecting your loot. That is to say, seeing what Santa brought.

Clause for Alarm

couldn’t live without.One particular year there were some iconic toys that caught our eye, including the Hasbro offering, G.I. Joe. Unlike these tiny things they call G.I. Joe today, the original Joe was tall, had working arms and legs, and hands that could hold a real fighting man’s protection.

Sports fans will enjoy Hall of Fame membership

Treat yourself, or somebody who is a huge sports fan, to a great Christmas gift – “Join the TEAM” for the first-ever Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame membership drive.It costs just $10 per month. Gear and other benefits are the stocking stuffer. And that’s not the best part.

IRS criminal investigations’s Atlanta Office warns of romance scams

Scammers use many tactics to separate unsuspecting victims of their identities and money.One of the tactics is the romance scam, which in 2022 affected approximately 70,000 victims with reported losses of $1.3 billion, according to a report by the Federal Trade Commission.

Defending our holidays year-round

This should be my favorite time of year. The special season beginning at Thanksgiving and extending through the Christmas holidays. But there are disturbing signs of change and not for the better, as a movement continues to grow disparaging our holidays as not being politically correct.

Writer says Ta-Nehisi Coates is a moral idiot and not reliable

The celebrated author Ta-Nehisi Coates is not reliable regarding things he’s spent considerable time thinking about here in the U.S., so it’s presumably a mistake to put much stock in his newly formed opinions about matters he barely knows anything about.

A house without a Christmas tree?

For much of the English- speaking world, the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree inside the home became popular in the Victorian era.For hundreds of years, people had decorated Christmas trees, but they were kept outside.