Ed Cullen's "Attic Salt" appears on the front of the Sunday People section, as well as at www.2theadvocate.com. The column's name, which means "subtly humorous or poignant," gives Cullen a lot of latitude.
An essayist on "All Things Considered," National Public Radio's afternoon news and feature program from Washington, D.C., Cullen's commentaries can be heard at www.npr.org.
A collection of his NPR essays and newspaper columns entitled "Letter in a Woodpile" has been published by Cool Springs Press, literary division of Thomas Nelson.
You may reach Ed Cullen at (225) 388-0306 or ecullen@theadvocate.com.
I get e-mails from an outfit that promotes flying lessons. Birthday. Christmas. Father’s Day. Give someone — give YOURSELF — the gift of flying. The one I just got begins, “Mother’s Day is just around the corner … ”
In the last afternoons of cool weather, I built a fire outside and read. I’d found firewood stacked at a neighbor’s curb, wood left from the winter that my neighbor was throwing away until I came along to recycle it.
WHOOOse got the owl? Over the years, the Baton Rouge Art League, which turns 75 next year, has had pieces in its collection “walk away.” That’s how ladies of the league refer to suspected thefts and loaned pieces that weren’t returned.
I’d beaten closing time at Hobby Lobby on a weeknight by 15 minutes. Standing in the check-out line, I had what it would take to turn a bicycle’s front gear ring into a piece of art that would tell time.
