I could not wait to live at college. It seemed as if I had spent years waiting for this moment. I would be free and on my own. I would be able to do whatever I wanted and all within the confines of a homely apartment that I would share with a good friend. This "apartment", of course, woul...

As dad and I took off for Grand Isle on Friday afternoon visions of red snapper, cobia, and dolphin fish danced through my mind. We bounced down the road in my dad's friend, John's pickup truck. The whine of the tires and the bland music on the radio made my eyelids heavy and slowly I wa...

Pain and humor are strange bedfellows for how do you explain The Three Stooges or the laughter following a banana peel pratfall? Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" juxtaposes that curious relationship between funny and sad as it chronicles the dissolution of the Jerome family just as its protagonist Eug...

On March 21, 1998, I attended a ballet of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Etheredge Center. The ballet began at 7:30 p.m. and lasted almost two hours, but the time went by so quickly because the dancers were so captivating in their performances. Two of the performers were students at th...