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Swimming Underwater: August 2012

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Thursday, August 30, 2012. Unlike other recent hurricanes and with winds not quite as high, Isaac is so slow moving that the destruction may be worse in some areas, the winds and flooding water grinding south Louisiana down by its stationary persistence. Sunday, August 5, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yes, Virginia, there really was a BATMOBILE". Write It for the Young at Heart/ten-part video series. The Fine Books Blog. September 8, 2016.

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Swimming Underwater: Warren Eyster / Writer & Teacher

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Monday, May 5, 2014. Warren Eyster / Writer and Teacher. My writing resume usually starts with the fact that I studied writing at LSU with Walker Percy and Vance Bourjaily, both known to interested folks as two great writers. I list them for just that reason, to have someone think, Wow, two fine writers and this unknown studied with them so let’s pay attention to his work because he must have some talent. Finishing a second novel, No Country For Old Men.

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Swimming Underwater: February 2014

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Monday, February 10, 2014. Reelin' in the Years. After my husband passed away, oh, several days later, a nice man took me in. My mother has compressed time, my father dead of a heart attack 43 years ago, and the man is my older brother, Willie, who a year earlier brought her to live with him and his wife. I am the youngest son standing, bringing my mother for weekend visits where she. Oh, I don’t know what to do. What do you have to do, Mama? Oh, Lord, yes.

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Swimming Underwater: January 2015

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. In the old days, fathers were not allowed in the delivery rooms. Admittance for them beyond a series of swinging doors even in the early stages of a wife’s labor was strictly forbidden. Once seated and no prayer, my first forkful of food heading toward my mouth, I swear, the first forkful heading up on an arc toward waiting teeth and tongue, and Dee said quietly, My water just broke. Dee attempted Natural Child Birth but it was a lo...

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Swimming Underwater: May 2014

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Monday, May 5, 2014. Warren Eyster / Writer and Teacher. My writing resume usually starts with the fact that I studied writing at LSU with Walker Percy and Vance Bourjaily, both known to interested folks as two great writers. I list them for just that reason, to have someone think, Wow, two fine writers and this unknown studied with them so let’s pay attention to his work because he must have some talent. Finishing a second novel, No Country For Old Men.

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Swimming Underwater: Tumbling

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Labels: Old age falls. May 16, 2015 at 8:56 PM. Raymond, when did this happen? May 16, 2015 at 10:37 PM. Would you have preferred tipping gently (I thought) backwards into shelves of empty canning jars, or tripping on the bricky border of a flower bed while pulling weeds, sailing across the sidewalk and onto the wet lawn, or maybe meeting a big radiator face to face in the public library? This golden years thing is not what I expected!

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Swimming Underwater: December 2012

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Thursday, December 6, 2012. Baton Rouge High School opened fifteen years after the Civil War and finally relocated for the last time on. A time of innocence for most, uninvolved and not knowing, more important the day to day tests and romantic maneuverings and the scandal of Mrs. Dugas’ 10. Grade daughter dropping out of school because she is pregnant. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yes, Virginia, there really was a BATMOBILE". The Fine Books Blog.

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Swimming Underwater: June 2013

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Friday, June 28, 2013. She comes to visit limping across the yard. Along uneven areas of grass and gravel,. Favoring her stiff knees, twisting left hip. To swing her leg out to avoid bending it,. Every ginger step at the corners of her eyes. As wrinkles appearing and smoothing quickly,. Stamped like the beating of her heart. Smiling, raising wrapped hand, greeting. Her mother near the small plum tree snowy. In first bloom, hugging, bound hand on. But you won&...

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Swimming Underwater: September 2014

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Monday, September 1, 2014. Hurricane season in south Louisiana is always a time of nagging worry that weather patterns will align and a path will open up through the Gulf of Mexico, sending a storm of destruction that changes people’s lives. Hurricane Gustav in 2008 was one such storm, six years ago today. And it went on and on. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yes, Virginia, there really was a BATMOBILE". Write It for the Young at Heart/ten-part video series.

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Swimming Underwater: Holiday Labors

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Writing and books. My salvation and downfall. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. In the old days, fathers were not allowed in the delivery rooms. Admittance for them beyond a series of swinging doors even in the early stages of a wife’s labor was strictly forbidden. Once seated and no prayer, my first forkful of food heading toward my mouth, I swear, the first forkful heading up on an arc toward waiting teeth and tongue, and Dee said quietly, My water just broke. Dee attempted Natural Child Birth but it was a lo...