Rant Du Jour

Chess, Slidell, Fishing in the Rigolets

After getting out of the Army in 1963, we moved to Slidell, a little city on the "northshore" of Lake Pontchartrain, across the lake from New Orleans.  There I became immersed in playing chess and Fishing in the lake and in the Rigolets. The Rigolets is a narrow mile wide mouth of the lake that spills out into the marsh and Gulf.  My buddy Martin Smith and I fished there in a pirogue.  Not a good idea.

Running for Office, Beethovin

I have written several hundred Rants. I will put some of them on this blog.  This one is about my experience in running for office in college and for City Council in Baton Rouge. There is something here about Beethovin and a poem.