French Quarter Festival

2018 French Quarter Festival As it Happened

The annual French Quarter Festival is a free springtime music and food celebration in New Orleans. The festival spans four days and invites more than 300 musical acts to perform in the historic heart of the cit...
New Orleans Jazz Fest

2018 New Orleans Jazz Fest in Review

There are few celebrations in the city of New Orleans more important than Jazz Fest. Known officially as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, this annual celebration brings to together the diverse cult...
vitamins

Does Your Body Need Vitamin Supplements?

February 5, 2018 When I was on the mend from two cracked ribs, etc., the doctor prescribed, among other pills, a once- a-week-50,000-unit pill for vitamin D. That set me to wondering about the implications or ...
robbery

We Must Not Be Lulled Into La-La Land

May 20, 2018  Society of the Divine Word Southern Province U.S.A. Provincial Superior, Father Paul Kahan, sent an urgent email to all of us at 8:20 in the morning of May 7, 2018. Held at gunpoint was the t...
Paradise

What is your piece of paradise here?

May 28, 2018 Due to ministry, rarely have I had an opportunity to view the Kentucky Derby Run For The Roses, aka “The most exciting two minutes in sports.” One might quibble over one or the other heavyweight b...

A Greiving Mother’s Mother’s Day

May 13, 2018 It was a month of Sundays since A Greiving Mother's Mother’s Day I had received a call from Hannah Augillard Benjamin, but the approach of Mother’s Day 2018 changed that abruptly. Dreary and painf...

Have Opioids Entered Your Life?

January 15, 2018 The pain medicine Tramadol was prescribed for me recently, to be taken every six hours or according to my need, to suppress the pain attendant to two ribs cracked when I stumbled on a marble t...
fort worth

Poindexter At The Bookends Of My Pastorates

 January 22, 2018 Shortly after the October 17, 1981 beginning of my first pastorate at Saint Martin de Porres Church in Prairie View, Texas, Poindexter came to be a well-known name that formed part of the fir...

We Waste Untold Amounts Of Spiritual Gems

January 8, 2018 The outsize physical world in which we live is a paradise overflowing with myriads of spectacular fauna and flora stunning in their variety, purpose and utility to us. About 200,000 years ago, ...