Connie McLeod, Author at Better After 50

Finding Hope In My Baton Rouge Church After The Shooting Of Alton Sterling

Connie McLeodJuly 12, 2016

It was a brutal week for my hometown, Baton Rouge......

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Katrina Storm How It Affected Us: 10 Years Later

Connie McLeodAugust 27, 2015

As the storm approached the bigger event in my life was that my husband had moved out....

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Lafayette Shootings: I Just Had My High School Reunion There

Connie McLeodJuly 27, 2015

The movie theater where lives are forever shattered is less than an hour from where we danced the night away....

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Do Little Things With Great Love

Connie McLeodFebruary 10, 2015

What was unexpected was the flood of love and compassion that washed over both of us throughout the day....

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My Mom Got Away With Murder In The Hospital

Connie McLeodMay 10, 2014

My daughter came for a visit and she helped me to see humor in my mom accusing me of smoking marijuana in the room, when in fact she was the one on morphine....

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A Spoonful Of Sugar?

Connie McLeodJanuary 13, 2014

I respect the Disney brand, but this brand has whitewashed dark fairy tales that were meant to teach powerful lessons into fluffy entertainment....

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8 Years After Katrina: How Our Lives Blossomed

Connie McLeodOctober 8, 2013

Before and after Katrina is how we mark time down here in Louisiana --We both realize the women we were back then wouldn’t recognize the women we are today....

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