Editor’s Letter
Kendra Maness
Editor/Publisher Slidell Magazine
Sometimes you just figure it out as you go along and hope you don’t get anyone killed or maimed.”
Cover Artist
Here are some helpful tips to goat ownership that I wish someone would have let me know BEFORE I became Suzy’s mom:
Last month, there was a big scare in our Slidell Magazine family. Our mascot and pet goat, Suzy, developed life-threatening stomach problems, causing her to be hospitalized at LSU Veterinary Center in Baton Rouge. It was a precarious situation for most of the week. It took a few days and a whole bunch of prayers, but she bounced back and came home healthy. I’ve never had a pet goat before Suzy, so there’s still a lot I don’t understand about them. I don’t have any “real” kids, but I assume that all first-time parents feel the same way as I do. Leslie Gates, our Crimi-Mommly Insane writer, says about parenthood, “There’s so much to learn.
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Kendra Maness - Editor/Publisher Editor@SlidellMag.com
Devin Reeson - Graphic Designer Graphics@SlidellMag.com Illustrations by: Zac McGovern www.HalMundane.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS EFOP, Charlotte Lowry Collins The Storyteller, John Case Jockularity, Corey Hogue Pet Points, Jeff Perret, DVM Crimmi-Mommly Insane, Leslie Gates Go Beyond, Rose Marie Sand Making Cents of Your Money, Mike Rich MikeRich@MyPontchartrain.com Sixty...Plus More, Donna Bush Donna.Bush@yahoo.com Boys from the Boot, NFL Draft, Mike Detillier Jazz on the Bayou, Kendra Maness Slidell Scroll Stroll, Alex Carollo
COVER ARTWORK BY ZAC MCGOVERN
1.) Goats eat EVERYTHING, regardless of whether it will kill them. And they don’t care how much you love that handwashed sweater you hung out to dry. Suzy has eaten the weather stripping on my car door, a paperback book, a pair of rubber gloves, and a lamp shade, just to name a few things. 2.) If you have blonde hair and you wear it in a ponytail, she thinks it’s hay and will try to eat that too. 3.) I say goats eat everything, but that’s not entirely true. Suzy is picky. We live on the edge of a 200 acre clearing, with grass and plants galore - a true field of dreams for a goat. But, Suzy prefers to walk down to my neighbor’s yard. The military guy. The one who cuts his grass with scissors. And buys expensive plants for his garden. I swear my goat is attracted to the smell of money, because she eats only the finest in landscaping. 4.) Azaleas are poisonous to goats. AZALEAS. That cheap, readily available plant that is EVERYWHERE in Southern Louisiana, and obviously tastes delightful to goats, will kill them. Those cheap plants (which dominate my neighbors’ yards except for military man because they’re just not expensive enough) will end up costing you thousands in vet bills. God bless you Suzy doll. Being your mommy is an adventure.
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zac mcgovern Zac McGovern is the talented illustrator behind the hilarity of Slidell Magazine’s Crimi-Mommly Insane and the cartoon Lil’ Loopy (a character based upon his daughter). This is his third cover. Zac was raised in Slidell. He says, “I may never know what drew me to seek attention for expressing myself through cartoons. All I can say is my parents encouraged me to be who I was, even when they didn’t necessarily agree with where my inclinations were taking me. I never quite fit in!” “But you know something? I love people. I like to draw their big noses and weird chins. I like to capture cartoons of people in their strangest, most unguarded moments. And I like to draw cartoons that are about the innocence and purity of children. Children are one of the greatest gifts, not because they are always easy to get along with or because they always make sense, but because there’s an honesty in kids and their world view that is all an old cynic needs to chill and enjoy a flower or a sunny day.” “People throw the word ‘artist’ around like it means something. I’m just a person. A simple person who wants to say something like anyone else. At the end of the day, I hope for the future and it’s not because it’s easier. No, I believe in hope because I want the kids right now to be better than us. For me, that’s what my art is all about.”
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