Teddy Allen
The Shreveport Times
United States
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All tangled up in the wheel of life
The beneficiary of almost two months of Carolina kindergarten education, you’d think I’d learn. → Read More
Delbert lets the freedom of the blues ring
Happy Fourth of July to you and to one of our favorite bluesmen, Delbert McClinton, who recently announced his retirement from singing and playing and romanticizing honky tonks, Cajuns, and the rockin’ harmonica. If you don’t know Delbert, it might be too late to catch up. Don’t know if he’s an acquired taste or not but I’ve always loved him since the first time I heard Emmylou Harris sing “Two… → Read More
Ask the Paperboy, Chapter 58: Out and About Edition
Ask the Paperboy, Chapter 58: Out and About Edition → Read More
You wouldn’t believe me if I toad you
It’s springtime and we’ve come to expect animal love and song flying through the air — along with tadpoles. → Read More
Mother Nature, Father Time beat The Big Chill
“Is this dead?” has reverberated throughout north Louisiana neighborhoods since about a week after the late-February storm of snow and ice. → Read More
Ask the Paperboy, Chapter 57: Spaced-out edition
Dear Ask the Paperboy, When is this Super Pink Moon I keep hearing about and what is the deal? Bet it’s some government deal. The moon’s not pink; it’s yellow. Even I know that! Jim “Moon” Beam in Bunkie Dear Jim, Actually the moon is without color but … we’ll get to that. Believe it or not, the Super Pink Moon is actually a real thing. It will reach peak illumination on Monday, April 26, at… → Read More
A stillness on the plains without McMurtry
When you kill one of the greatest characters ever created in American fiction with 200-plus pages to go, you are an Official Writing Stud. → Read More
‘He didn’t have to come here, you know…’
It is worthwhile at Easterto hold more in wonder this kind of heart and goodness, to understand the depth of one who loved the weak, the troubled and the outcasts. → Read More
‘He didn’t have to come here, you know…’
It is worthwhile at Easterto hold more in wonder this kind of heart and goodness, to understand the depth of one who loved the weak, the troubled and the outcasts. → Read More
Did the shot we got hit the spot?
More than 1 million Louisianans have received at least one dose of the vaccine and more than half a million have completed their vaccine series. → Read More
Did the shot we got hit the spot?
More than 1 million Louisianans have received at least one dose of the vaccine and more than half a million have completed their vaccine series. → Read More
The not-so-secret way to get there
The right way and quickest way to get to where you really want and need to go never really was a secret after all → Read More
That week Godzilla and King Kong came to town
During this week’s epic snow and sleet storm(s), the latest in a long line of unexpected, never-dreamed-of, head-scratching events over the past 12 months, you were allowed to ask some questions that would seem odd in other years but perfectly legit in this one. Like maybe, “What’s next? What could POSSIBLY be next?” Godzilla walking up out of the Red River to terrorize the landscape is all… → Read More
The Air Fryer: infatuation or true love?
These air fryer disciples are everywhere. Hopefully one of them knows a decent recipe for Fried Conversation Hearts. → Read More
Introducing a ‘No Senior Citizen Left Behind’ TV initiative
Introducing a ‘No Senior Citizen Left Behind’ TV initiative → Read More
Nod to the King of interviewers
Hurt me that Larry “The Interview” King died this week at 87, but did you know he worked in Shreveport-Bossier in the early 1970s? Been so long you might have known and forgotten…More in a moment but first… Thought I was having a bad day this week until this headline ambushed me: “China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test, saying it’s more accurate.” The traffic jam and the annoying phone call… → Read More
Fellow Americans, my inaugural Inaugural address
A January weekday on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., year unknown…A man in a nice suit and tie speaks… “Is this thing on?” (Man taps microphone) “Is this thi…” (Semi-embarrassed and somewhat aggravated, he taps the mic again.) “IS THIS THING ON?” (Taps mic again much harder, and by much harder we mean like a guy trying to drive a nail, causing several loud pops, followed by screams… → Read More
‘Hey 2020: Don’t let the door hit you…’
2020 started out at our house with the promise of porcelain in the form of a new toilet—or, if you have Carolina and Claiborne Parish roots as I do, a new commode. Either way you say it, it’s a winner winner chicken dinner. It was even touted as a “high performance toilet featuring the latest innovations,” a “high efficiency 1.28 gallon per flush toilet that meets the EPA’s WaterSense guidelines… → Read More
Our favorite feel-good (non-virus!) books of 2020
Thought the pandemic would free up lots of time to do one of my favorite things: read stuff I want to read. Like so many other things this year, it didn’t work out as we’d hoped and planned. Part of it was pilot error, part of it was having plenty of unforeseen work to do. But like you, during the past nine months I’ve made the effort to read most of the virus-themed bestsellers, hastily written… → Read More
The world would be sadly quieter with no Crickets
The picture is really close from his chest up and he’s at the beach, probably North Myrtle Beach, the big sky and water in the background. Cricket loved the beach. He let me ride the 43 miles with him from our hometown to the beach one summer Sunday night, back when he was 18 and a star on the football team and I was 8 and trying to figure out long division. Olive T-shirt, shades in silver rims,… → Read More