The keys to life
Sitting in my office today. Remembered it’s my father’s birthday. He would have been 79 years old. I’d be lying if I said I only...
Remembering The Chief
Chief Lawrence Reilly is dead. We called him The Chief. Everybody did. I did, to my husband, friends, family, anybody who read my book,...
Sample letter for lawmakers
Howdy peeps. I know I am supposed to be blogging about my life and books and marriage and blah blah blah but I just drafted a shorter...
Home is Where Y'at
Yesterday I went to Target to buy a new notebook because my latest journal is almost filled up. I have been keeping a journal for years:...
My life, Bullet form
I went to my Web site this morning and saw that I have not posted anything in months. The reason? I am short on time; I am always short...
Where I was... Memories of 9-11
On September 11, 2001 I was sleeping when my telephone rang. It was my mother, telling me that a plane had just crashed into the World...


Update on meeting with Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund...
Greetings! As some of you know the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund contacted Del Francis and I a little over a week before Del finished...


Welcome to the new Louise (the Web site version)...
I can do many things but Web design is not one of them. After hours soul-crushing labor--I saved the changes! I did!-- and throwing the...
This Memorial Day...
Hello everyone, Memorial Day is here. And the families and survivors of the USS Frank E. Evans are one giant step closer to seeing the 74...


Pentagon to investigate...
This week Senator Chuck Schumer's office released a statement indicating that the Department of Defense is now reviewing the case of the...