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Smiley Anders has been writing a column six days a week for The Advocate since 1979.
Smiley, who received B.A. and M.A. degrees in journalism from LSU, joined The Advocate in 1973 as business reporter after a 13-year career as a business journalist (he was oil and gas editor of The Shreveport Times and edited business publications for the Louisiana Farm Bureau and Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce).
His column has won first place in the items category of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual competition (the Herb Caen Award) on four occasions (in 1985, 1997, 2004 and 2005). He was named the first "Communicator of the Year" in 1975 by the Public Relations Association of Louisiana. He served as president of the Press Club of Baton Rouge in 1976 and 1996.
He is married to the former Katherine Scales. He has two children and six grandchildren.
Send your e-mail items for Smiley’s column to smiley@theadvocate.com or call him at (225) 388-0639.
Dear Smiley: Reading Fern Grush’s game-day menus centered on LSU’s opponents’ mascots reminds me of about 10 years ago. My wife and my daughter (about 9) and I had gone to an LSU-Arkansas game in Baton Rouge the Friday after Thanksgiving.
I’m constantly amazed at the creativity and resourcefulness of my readers. Sometimes I think they should be running the state — a feeling I’m sure most of them share.
Lynda Normand says she and husband Cliff recently had an unexpected visitor at 11:30 p.m. She says a loud crash of breaking glass woke her up.
After all the hoopla over Billy Cannon’s run against Ole Miss in 1959, we get a reminder of another extraordinary event in the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry.
The death of former governor David Treen reminds me of what a gracious man he was. He could appear stiff in his public appearances, especially when compared to Edwin Edwards. But one-on-one he could be surprisingly relaxed and fun-loving.
Gary Couvillion says granddaughter Grace Ann, 4, gets a kick out of going to the LSU campus before a home football game in her Tiger cheerleader outfit.
Dear Smiley: Just had to comment on your readers seeing LSU Tiger gear in foreign places. That’s great, connecting with displaced Louisiana natives. But does that indicate a greater problem?
Talk about bad news on the doorstep … I was shocked and saddened to learn from Wednesday’s Advocate that the feds plan to ban fresh Gulf oysters unless they’re treated.
Jewell J. Chubbuck says a friend sent her a clipping from The News & Observer in Durham, N.C., about how residents of one Durham neighborhood are dealing with speeders.
Elwyn Bocz, of Gramercy, says several years ago a nephew attending Nicholls State University in Thibodaux came home for Christmas break with a friend in tow.
Kathleen Talmadge came across a story about famed New Orleans chef John Besh in the October issue of Men’s Health magazine.
Family built a special store here Here’s an unsolicited plug for an extraordinary book.
Dear Smiley: In the late 1960s, the Air Force sent my friend Bill Brown, who now lives in Boyce, to Northwestern State University to take several classes.
Jackie Upton gets nostalgic about a once-humble item of clothing that now dominates wardrobes around the world: “I remember my first pair of jeans, way before Vogue magazine and Diana Vreeland made them fashionable."
Annabelle Armstrong says, “While driving my granddaughters Rachel and Molly to their home after school, we passed the beautiful new retirement home for nuns, located behind the Catholic Life Center.
Smiley Anders is out sick, so he does not have a column today. His column will return when he does.
Della Neely-Stout says, “When I met my groom four years ago he talked often about how he loved cats. He also talked about his sailboat.
Dear Smiley: My husband grew up in Indiana. He says he does not need a hearing aid — my Mississippi accent is the problem. Recently, LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri was honored by his Lafayette fans. I called the office where we work part time to say we would be late.
Rick Marshall comments on our sad story about the Louisiana Municipal Police Employee Retirement System standing to lose $24 million invested ina Texas golf resort.
LSU fans are getting younger and younger and seem likely to start yelling for the Tigers at birth, as soon as the doctor slaps their behinds. Wanda “Nannie” Mayers says her 14-month-old grand-daughter Addison Grace is already a big LSU fan.
At a First Presbyterian Church event (yes, I go places other than The Pastime …) my cousin Bettye Richard told me a story about our grandmother, Mae Anders, that I hadn’t heard before:
I just can’t seem to stop running stories about misunderstandings caused by Southern accents. As C.F. points out, this can occur even when both parties are from the South:
I learned of the death of Lorraine Exner, just short of her 89th birthday, when I returned from my vacation. For many years she brightened this column with her witty verses and quips.
Dear Smiley: While you were in Back Brusly, I was in Center Croatia. The Croatian government has a scheme to increase the income of small farmers. A farmer may act as a restaurateur and serve home-cooked meals to visitors if 80 percent of the food served comes from his farm. Sort of a breakfast without a bed.
After a few vacation days at Bubba’s Exxon, Motel & Bait Shop in Back Brusly, we decided to view some colorful fall foliage, not yet much in evidence around Brusly.
