“I would go home and sleep for a few hours at a time. We had different teams that I would have assigned out there. I would actually be working with them.

Darwin thought the same. “Gone to Texas” has Darwin, vice president of logistics for AFS Logistics, a Top 10 nominee for Songwriter of the Year by the Texas Country Music Association (TCMA).

Each edition, Tony Taglavore takes a local person to lunch – someone well-known, influential or successful – and asks, “What’s Your Story?”

“I will never tell you that it doesn’t bother me. It still bothers me. Even at the end of 29 years of emergency medicine, children’s deaths would bother me. Children’s deaths always bothered me.

Speaking of careers, Nelms’ path to her current role as director of sports for the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission was not a straight line.

The Hispanic Heritage Association of Northwest Louisiana (HHANWLA) will host its first “Day of the Dead” festival, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 4, from noon to 10 p.m. at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport. Admission is free, while some contests will require an entry fee.

I recently lost a family member. For years, I would text Cathy Lewis every couple of weeks, asking if she could get me in “today.”

“I was on the car lot, and James Burton (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, Grammy Award winner, Elvis’ lead guitarist) comes to look at cars. I had never met James Burton, but obviously knew he was a guitar legend.