Stories and reflections on home, soul, and the art of living.  

The mirage of home and why displacement became my greatest teacher Thomas Wolfe was right, though I didn’t know it yet as I drove my GMC Yukon across the Texas-Louisiana border in December 2012. You can’t go home again. Not to the place you left. Not to the person you were. Not to the life […]

You Can’t Go Home Again: A Louisiana Homecoming Story

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Becoming, Stories

Collage of Louisiana imagery, including the Shreveport skyline at night, French Quarter architecture, plantation porch with rocking chairs, boiled crawfish, cypress swamp, and an alligator in the wild.


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