Tag: friends

• 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

• A Very Merry Bookmas!

  It’s Christmas Day! I’ve had a wonderful Advent and now Christmas season with my family and close friends. It has to be the most relaxed Christmas I’ve ever had, having retired from teaching this January 12, 2024, I came into Advent this year without reams of papers to grade, midterms to create and then grade,…

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  December 25, 2024

  books, Essay, faith, food

  Advent, baking, book-review, books, chocolate, Christmas, cookbooks, cooking, cozy mystery, essays, exercise, faith, family, fiction, food, friends, healthy, Judi Dench, Kate Quinn, Martha Stewart, Maryland, Mass, Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame, nonfiction, novel, Olivia Ford, prayer, reading, self-care, Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent, teacher, teaching, The Briar Club, The Cookbook, writer, writing