The Course Marshall and the ABC Man

pink golf ball

This post was  inspired by Paige Bowers who left a comment on my Johnny Adams post asking if selling used golf balls was a lucrative business. For a few months during my golf career, I was assigned to work at Dumas Golf Course in Baker, Louisiana. On busy weekends, or if a tournament was in play, [...]

Chasing Rainbows

Chasing Rainbows

This morning I did a search for a song to Blip and up popped a name I hadn’t thought about in a long time — blues musician Johnny Adams. When I was in college, I worked summers, weekends, and some afternoons at the public golf course system in Baton Rouge. One of the courses I [...]

Thoughts on the Emergency Alert System – Musings During TS #Lee

Tropical Storm Lee [high res]

I work in Emergency Services, so I’m well aware of preparation and safety for almost any type of disaster, even the Zombie Apocalypse. Fortunately, during Tropical Storm Lee, I had the weekend off and wasn’t called back in to work. So far. As I lounged around in a caftan, pretending I was really in the [...]

Relaxing Retreats

Relaxing Retreats

Wine glass at Houmas House (c) Shannon Hurst Lane

I’ve been on a mission to find some of the most peaceful retreats and destinations spas around North America. I’ve also been fortunate to visit a good many of these places during the course of my travels over the past decade.  Here are few places that stand out for me. El Monte Sagrado in Taos, [...]