Posts by Jim

I know of a woman, who in order to protect her identity, we will call her “Stephanie”.  This “Stephanie” as we shall call her, traveled to Italy a few years ago, and upon her return decided to decorate her kitchen in an Italian motif.  Wine bottles, baskets of grapes, leafy grape vines, decorate pitchers, bottles of oil, and candles are strategically placed along the top of the kitchen cabinets.  Based upon...

A long time ago a little baby girl was born.  She was gorgeous, but not quite done yet, so when her parents brought her home they had to put her in an easy bake oven and flip her over every so often.  She emerged like a beautiful butterfly out of a cocoon.  She grew up and was the best friend to my daughter, and was so much a part of my life that I have always called her my “other” daughter.  Unfortunately for dads,...

I have suffered with allergies all my life.  In fact, I take allergy meds daily, take shots monthly, and just lay waiting for a good hard freeze so that the evil pollen monster will die.  So I go to Louisiana down to the New Orleans and Baton Rouge area.  My first morning there, a little left over allergy thing, but afterwards nothing.  Now bear in mind, I am driving through an area populated with more trees per square inch then...

After leaving the haunted plantation, I drove to San Francisco Plantation.  When you pull up to the plantation property, you think to yourself that it is going to be a dump.  It is surrounded by a Marathon refinery, which has consumed the former plantation acreage.  However, the plantation house is the most stunning I have ever seen. I’ve included a picture of the house itself.  After driving back to New Orleans, I arrived at...

So spent the night last night in the Judge Woodruff Suite at Myrtles Plantation.  The plantation is haunted.  The story goes that the owner of the plantation had a house slave named Chloe, who also served as a concubine.  She kept eavesdropping, would get caught, and would be punished.  One day the owner decided that he had had enough of her spying, so he cut off her ear, and sent her to work the rest of her days in the kitchen.  She...