Tag: Baton Rouge

• Friends, Family, Food, But No Funeral!

  My husband and I just recently returned home from a nine-day trip to our home state, Louisiana, where we had the time of our lives. This trip was planned around my nephew’s engagement party, bookended by family time and some really great food. When my husband and I married, we were both living in Maryland,…

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  May 2, 2025

  Essay, faith, food

  Amite, Baton Rouge, Boston’s, Brady’s, Cajun, Catholic, crawfish, Don’s, Duke’s, engagement party, family, food, friends, funeral, Gumbo, Hammond, Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Lighthouse Coastal Brasserie, Louisiana, Mass, Mississippi River, New Orleans, North Shore, prayer, Southeastern Louisiana Univeristy, strawberry shortcake cheesecake

• Travel for Beginners

  I know almost nothing about soy sauce. I know I like to dip my sushi rolls into it and I know that the colored tops of the soy sauce bottles on the tables in Asian restaurants denote whether the soy sauce is regular (red) or low sodium (green). I know it is one of the…

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  February 7, 2016

  books, Essay

  A Moveable Feast, A Week in Winter, Africa, Asia, Asian, Bangladesh, Baton Rouge, Beryl Markham, British, Circling the Sun, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, Hadley Richardson, Ireland, Irish, Kenya, Kirstin Chen, Louisiana, Maeve Binchy, Memphis, Monroe, Nell Freudenberger, New Orleans, Paula McLain, pub, reading, Singapore, soy sauce, Soy Sauce for Beginners, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The Newlyweds, The Paris Wife

• One Chord

  One chord. That’s all it takes. One chord and I instantly know this song and the artist. It’s the sound of that one chord that caused me to have a reoccurring nightmare for weeks on end in 1974 where I would hear that chord and then faint, waking up hours later after having missed an…

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  August 30, 2015

  Essay

  8 track tape, Baton Rouge, Bennie and the Jets, Billy Joel, Candle in the Wind, Dorothy, Elton John, Emerald City, Europe, Fork Union Military Academy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Harvest, Levon, Louisiana, LSU, Madman Across the Water, Neil Young, New Orleans, Princess Diana, SLU, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Dancer

• The Second Mrs. de Winter: Not Your Mama’s Cinderella

  Despite what Walt Disney’s mega-marketing machine would have you believe, he did not create Cinderella. The story may have originated as early as 7 BC, but its European roots date from the mid 1600’s. The basic story line does not vary much: the prince or other wealthy man saves the poor orphaned girl from a…

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  August 9, 2015

  books, Essay

  Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock, Atlantic Ocean, Baton Rouge, Broadway, Cinderella, Cinderella story, Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, Disney, Du Maurier, English countryside, gothic, Hollywood, Julia Roberts, Kits Browning, Louisiana, LSU, Manderley, Maxim de Winter, Monte Carlo, Oscar, Prince, Rebecca, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Richard Gere