Sunday, June 10, Violet, Louisiana — Home It’s been a while since I wrote anything about Hurricane...
Category - Perspective
Suicide bomber’s blast rips apart my city
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — The rain of sadness dropped in Peshawar last week when a suicide bomber...
A Connecticut chorus buses to Boston
BOSTON, Massachusetts, U.S.A. — Jarred awake by an ill-placed pothole or ex-possum, I cracked...
Life = Pressure. Pressure = Life.
PERTH, Australia — People say life is short. Is it really? When you sit down and really put...
The sober truth about getting really drunk
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – My father told me one Sunday morning that he’s never gotten...
During the world’s biggest party, I hit the books
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – Lent is almost over, and for a semi-practicing Roman Catholic...
For a miserable birthday, go camping
Apparently Mark Twain once said, “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is the lightning...
Christmas in the parish
Our Christmas tree, at home. (Samantha Perez/YJI) Christmas Day, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana...