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By CAY SONNIER GIBSON

Your Map to Monkey Hill

At our last visit, I wrote about giving your child(ren) a child-friendly education at the Audubon Zoo:

“So our tour is not yet done and neither is your child’s summer. Hang onto your ticket. Autumn is around the bend and it is probably the best time to take your child out of the classroom and into the [...]

Child-Friendly Education in Louisiana

When I first began writing this column I was told by close family members not to write about Louisiana’s educational or political systems. In other words: Stay in safe coastal waterways and out of the Gulf during hurricane season.

Keeping  my opinion silent on the political arena is easy. I have a hard time understanding it. [...]

Tour of Avery Island, Part 3

Part I

Part 2

Before getting back in our cars to head to the entrance of Avery Island, a short walk takes us past pineapple jugs of palm trees into the Bamboo Garden where dreadlocks of bamboo are as sparse as a cancer patient’s hair during chemo.  I have my own list of theories for this ill [...]

Tour of Avery Island, Part 2

Part I

I must apologize for leaving my readers unsupervised in the wilds of Avery Island. It was very unhospitable and un-southern of me. An optimist would remind us that being left in a garden during the month of May is not a bad thing at all, so we’ll go with that.

I’m sure everyone knows what [...]

Tour of Avery Island, Louisiana

It wasn’t Mother’s Day but it was my birthday (last month) and instead of presenting me with a nosegay of flowers, my husband presented me with 250 acres of magnolias, azaleas, bridal wreaths, camellias, junipers, irises, roses, and lilies tied up with a ribbon known as Avery Island. 

What a bouquet!

Since yesterday was Mother’s Day and those [...]

Strolling Through Old Acadiana

Every parent knows what happens when a trip gets planned.

Somebody gets sick. Or you have car problems.

It’s a given.

Sometimes it is simply a flat tire. Sometimes it is a runny nose or stubborn allergies.

This time it was sickness with a capital “S”.

The question arose: should we cancel our trip or continue our plans in hopes [...]

Weighing-In Fish and Camper Living

North Toledo Bend State Park is officially full. Like us, people from all over the state of Louisiana (and beyond) are here from some Easter  R & R. The park is speckled with campers, pop-ups, and tents of every color, shape, and size. There are Laredos, Terries,  Dutchmen, lots of Wildcats, Cherokees, Springdales, Pilgrims, Aspens, [...]

Pollen, Anyone?

It’s almost like the Emerald City, only it’s golden. Louisiana is cankered in a bubble of life gone mad. The fish delivered to our communal camping spot are sometimes bloated with life, wombs ripe with uncured caviar. These are often let back into the lake to live another day. My girls come to me, keeper [...]

Camping in 21st Century Louisiana

I bid each and every one of you Good Morning! from our camping spot at North Toledo Bend State Park where the dogwood is blooming, the perch are perching, and the pollen is pollinating. Or would pollen be plural as in “the pollen are pollinating”? I don’t have Internet to check on that so I’ll let [...]

Small Town Louisiana

We have been traveling around Louisiana with my son’s soccer team. This means we’ve been seeing lots of ghost town dwellings we didn’t know existed, many don’t-blink towns, and vacancies of land across Louisiana. I can count the number of traffic lights on one hand.

In traveling, one sees that God has been very generous in alloting [...]

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