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  • Back from Louisiana "Book Tour" (Maybe they'll adopt me!)

    April 24, 2009

    • Just back from the closest thing I'll ever have to a "book tour" for Accordion Dreams: ten wonderful days in Louisiana. Traveling with my fiddler husband. The book events always included Cajun-Creole music. A couple of bookstore events, another big presentation at LSU. An interview on a local pubic radio station, by a Cajun woman musician who was as penetrating as Terry Gross. Two ...
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  • On Katrina: `Hello, I jus' got off a road outside New Orleans . . .

    August 6, 2008

    • I was run off the road by one of your trailers! . . . I was behind one of your trailers . . . the driver kept slowin' down in front of me and everybody else . . .I tried to pass, he swerved and hit the brakes! . . . I tried to speed up to pass him _ he sped up! . . . I tried to pass _ he pulled out in front of me! . . . I tried to pass agiin! _ he pulled in front of me agin! . . .' It ...
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  • Written in the Stars

    February 27, 2008

    •   “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”    —Hermann Melville, Moby-Dick or, The WhaleYou might be one of those people who are destined to write. It's "Written in the Stars." That's the name of this weekend's conference in Shreveport, Louisiana. You're invited to join me, Margie Lawson other authors, editors and agents at this event. ...
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