My Yesterdays

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP31: I Play Center Linebacker If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! When I was twelve, we moved from California to Louisiana. In California, I played baseball. I lived baseball. But in Louisiana there was no baseball. Only

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP30: I step off the top of a football stadium If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! When I walk, my head is down, and I scour the ground for nickels, dimes and quarters. It’s a poor boy habit I developed when I was twelve, but

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP28: The Curse of the Frog If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! When I was in high school, I knew a boy who went by the nickname “Bwana” because he loved outdoor critters. He used to keep a pet snake, and every morning some of us boys

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP26: A Confession: My role in last century’s tulipomania If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! This is, I guess, a confession of sorts about the role I played in last century’s video game fad. The years in question

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP24: The Tattle Tail Priest If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Bleach. The smell of bleach and pine. A lot of what I do in the classroom, when it's not grammar, when it's not composition, is intuitive. For instance, when it's

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! The Federal Government reinstated its draft lottery during my senior year in college. It was based on the birth dates of young men born before 1950. And since the ping pong

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! After college, I was drafted into the U.S. Army. This was during the Vietnam War. Instead of being sent to Vietnam, however, I ended up in

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! I went to a Catholic seminary for high school. It was a boarding school, and there were only three times each year that we could go home --

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP11: The Bat in the House If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! It is humbling when a man cannot protect his wife and home from an invading menace that’s smaller than a poodle. It was a hot August night when I learned I did not measure up to

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP09: The Crop Circle Squirrel If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! You have probably seen aerial pictures of crop circles, strange patterns in wheat fields that appear to be deliberately made. No one knows who or what made them, though

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S01 EP05: The truth about the “Horoscope Heist” If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! I suppose I should come clean about Dan Bitterman, the main character in my novel, And Lead Us Not. If you’ve read And Lead Us Not, you’ve already discovered that Dan is a

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S01 EP04: The Cuckoo in the Cuckoo Clock If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Lots of people have asked me recently: What word or words would I use to describe myself? a writer? a southern writer? a humorist? a satirist? a social critic? Some who have read