A teaser from my just-published memoirs, Opening into Light: As you may remember from my March blog article “Card Catalog,” in the fall of 1970 I, my sick and reclusive husband George, and our two small children were living just outside of Mansfield, Louisiana, the tiny, stagnant and thoroughly segregated focal point of DeSoto parish. As I put it in that article: “George’s non-stop coughing had driven us east from smog-ridden California to find a place, any place at all, wher

I wrote this column originally for the NAJPA Newsletter of September 2010. Since my last blog was a pretty heavy-duty one, I thought maybe a tad less earnestness was in order this time; this article suggested I resurrect it. Hope you enjoy it. If you don’t like cats, maybe you’ll want to skip this column. Or maybe not. Cats are amazing teachers, and, as we well know, they couldn’t care less if you like them or not…. Having been engaged in a number of (to me) weighty matters