Ellen Byron

In the mid-1980s, I was visiting my friend Jan in New Orleans, and we decided to take a day trip up the River Road. We wandered around...

I’ll never forget the day my friend, Jan Gilbert, a renowned New Orleans, called with terrible news. “I have stage four breast cancer,”...

My first mystery, Plantation Shudders: A Cajun Country Mystery, will soon be published, and it's thrilling for so many reasons. I get to...

My mother, an Italian immigrant, was in love with historic American architecture, and she shared her passion with all of us. We spent...

Only in our house is someone talking to the dog when they say, "Hey, no tongue!"

I do. I totally heart her. Because I have the musical taste of a fifteen-year-old girl.

Anyone who thinks man is innately good has never driven in the rain in Los Angeles. #newnovelacajuncountrymystery

The couple picking recyclables out of our neighbor's trash just drove away in car way nicer than mine. I think I found my next career.

I heard Benedict Cumberbatch say on NPR that his name sounds like a fart in the bathtub. He just got a whole lot sexier to me.

Somebody needs to tell my mirror and all photographs, "Hey, that's not what I look like in my head."

I got really excited about how well new batteries worked in the TV remote. And then I got super-depressed about how excited I got about...

Irony is having the song, "Pumped-Up Kicks" come on the radio as you're driving your kid to school after getting a robocall from the...

Spotted on the freeway, a guy doing 70 on a motorcycle while checking his iPhone. Because doing 70 on a motorcycle on an L..A. freeway...

FB, I'm flattered that your suggested post to me today was for a Mazzerati dealership. I wonder what kind of trade-in deal I'll get on a...

At the end of my physical therapy today, the therapist whispered to me, "Did you know that your shirt is inside-out?" No, I did not....

At 6:30 a.m., the 134 East is a steady flow of sleep-deprived people driving straight into the sun. But I did get to hear that the news...