Glynn HarrisGlynn Harris is a long-time outdoor writer from North Louisiana and has won more than 50 writing and broadcasting awards during his 47 year career. I was drawn to a verse in the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Sound of Music that ends “These are a few of my favorite things”. No, I’m not putting in a plug for the vocals …

Thomas FieldsThomas “Tuffy” Fields is an author and regular contributor to The Gazette. He can be reached by email at thelouisianaexplorer@yahoo.com. Many years ago I was at CBU 402 in Annapolis, Maryland. The military was finalizing its war in Viet Nam and military units were feeling the pinch as financial cuts were taking place and units were watching costs allocated …

Jim BrownJim Brown is a former Louisiana state senator, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Insurance and a regular contributor to The Gazette. It would seem that the use uncouth swear words have become a way of description throughout the Bayou State, as well as across the country, from the President on down in recent years. The routine use of words that …