When I was a teenager, I walked to synagogue.
Cursive readers can help out the National Archives by volunteering their script translation skills. The National Archive has digitized thousands upon thousands of documents and needs help deci…
Jumping headfirst into a story comes easy.
In his younger days, Jarrod Douthitt was a casual golfer. In fact, he and his friends were the types to goof around on the course more than actually play the game.
When the Lafayette Gleaux Riders light up the streets of Lafayette, they're not only having fun and building a community. The group riders are showcasing the need for lighting around the city …
Kathy Coleman, the president of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Information Center of Louisiana, has firsthand experience with raising her own grandchildren, and she has dedicated her life …
Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh's memoir, "From Here to the Great Unknown" is the first book of 2025 for the Louisiana Inspired Book Club. The mother/daughter duo both share their perspecti…
I am not a Louisianian who transforms my Christmas tree into a Mardi Gras tree.
Rachel Foreman is a licensed clinical social worker who serves the Acadiana area. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a master's degree i…
In a small ground floor office of the vast Second Line Stages filming complex in New Orleans' Lower Garden District, The COOL Cooperative, which stands for Creating Outstanding Opportunities L…
On a chilly day in January, a huddle of firefighter candidates stand in the bay of the Prairieville Fire Station with a carefully constructed pile of fire gear at their feet. They shift from o…
Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has introduced a piece choreographed by interim artistic director Matthew Rushing th…
I love a screen door.
Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has specific volunteer opportunities, email us at lainsp…
In 2023, when Allen Williams tweaked his back getting something out of his attic, he called his primary care doctor in St. Tammany and scheduled an appointment to address the pain. His doctor …
Linda Auld is widely known as the "NOLA Bug Lady," as she has raised 147 species of butterflies and moths — photographing and studying the life cycles of these insects. For more than 30 years,…
On any given night in Baton Rouge, around 400 people are homeless. Because of limited space, approximately 200 of those without homes are not in shelters. Multiple organizations located downto…
The first book of 2025 for Inspired Book Club is mother/daughter duo Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keogh's memoir, "From Here to the Great Unknown." The book may be a surprising choice, but we …
Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana. If your organization has specific volunteer opportunities, please email us at lainspired@theadvocate.com with deta…
The November issue of The Atlantic has a feature story that has generated a lot of discussion: “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.”
For nearly 17 years, my family and I lived in one of the strangest houses around. It had quirks aplenty, but what it had going for it was the bulk of the back wall of the home was glass. The e…
As Louisiana Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin, writer in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, is Louisiana’s acting literary ambassador. She was named for her two-year tenure in 2023,…
Working in the food industry, Olivia McCoy found that her job exacerbated her mental health struggles.
Max Barbier of Abita Springs never dreamed of being a college athlete. Born with spina bifida, Barbier was limited in athletics despite being a huge sports fan. In junior high, he discovered w…
“My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hosp…
Louisiana Inspired highlights volunteer opportunities across south Louisiana and the Shreveport/Bossier City area. If your organization has specific volunteer opportunities, email us at lainsp…
CBS contributor David Begnaud returns to Louisiana often. However, he hadn't been in the Louisiana State Capitol since he was elected governor of Boys State in 2000, the summer before his seni…
As 2024 comes to a close, we pause to reflect on the moments that moved us, the people who uplifted us or the ideas that sparked our imaginations.
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