My friend Liam Doyle moved to Tampa in January for a new job, leaving behind deep roots and relationships in Acadiana. A couple of weeks ago, he shared a truth I learned long ago: Making frien…
We’ve been in our new home for four months. As we sat at our too-big-for-the-space table and had dinner last week, I noticed the white banker’s box. It had been in the room so long I had stopp…
She answered the phone on the second ring, as she almost always does. (My mother is the only person I know who doesn’t screen her calls at all. If it rings, she answers it.) But last Tuesday, …
A perk of having grown (or nearly grown) children is when they move to cool places, you get to visit them.