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By CAY SONNIER GIBSON

The Spirit of Louisiana

This whole summer has been a baptism of oil upon the Gulf and it will be remembered as such. Last time I wrote here I focused on the goodness of the Gulf.  I wanted people to remember the good things despite the flaws that exist along our shores. Now our eyes are turned anew on [...]

Facing the Gulf

I stood looking at the Gulf of Mexico; deliberating it. My husband and daughters were playing tag with the surfs and they needed another floatie device. I had it … and they needed it.

The reason for my deliberation was not what you would think. In fact, there were no tar balls, oil, or BP representatives [...]

Tour of Avery Island, Part 3

Part I

Part 2

Before getting back in our cars to head to the entrance of Avery Island, a short walk takes us past pineapple jugs of palm trees into the Bamboo Garden where dreadlocks of bamboo are as sparse as a cancer patient’s hair during chemo.  I have my own list of theories for this ill [...]

Blend of the Bayou

(Edited to add:  Today is golden. This was written yesterday under churning gray, soupy skies.)

It’s raining.

Again.

Surprised?

Yet?

Sunday morning at MawMaw’s house, my aunt commented that her sister living in Nebraska has gotten an extra sledload of snow this winter. So has the northern part of Louisiana. We, on the other end of the bayou state, have gotten [...]

Super Bowl Salute to Food

Get Ready for Sunday! pizza ads peppered my email box. I ignored them. Our Super Bowl menu was already planned. I bebopped to the supermarket with my two youngest daughters to fill-up our Super Bowl concession stand. All of Louisiana (pretty much the whole Who Dat? Nation)  met us at the store.

Everyone is planning … shopping … [...]

Conversation Between Cajun Men

(Photo Credit: Lanell Cormier)

Par-TAY with Cajun Grandma

What do you do when your Cajun grandmother celebrates her birthday during Carnival Season?

You celebrate with some King Cake and Blue Bell Mardi Gras Ice Cream, of course.

(Photo credit: Unskilled Labor)

Speaking, of which, Blue Bell has got an awesome website. Makes one hungry for all things icy, creamy, and sweet! They even host an Ice [...]

King Cake Time

 

Tonight the groceries stores are flooded with these cinnamon-sprinkled cakes. Christ has been born, the Twelve Days of Christmas observed, and January 6th arrives with the observance of three weary travelers from afar following a star.

Do you have your King Cake on your dinner table tonight? It’s that time, you know. This might come as a [...]

Expelling the Darkness

In my last write-up, I promised that I had one more Christmas-tide tradition to share with my readers.

I’m sure many of you had a bonfire last night. Right? Was it this big? Say … some thirty-feet high?

Probably not. Most of our bonfires were smaller scale though some country people … and I’m thinking of my [...]

Christmas Traditions & Customs in Louisiana

Are you enjoying that plate of cookies and mug of milk yet?

Presents all wrapped? Check!

Meal planned and bought for tomorrow? Check!

Batteries on hand? Toys assembled? Check!

Bulging stockings ready to pop? Check!

Great. Just sit back, enjoy your cookies, and follow me to a time when you were little and snug in your bed, impressionable, happy and [...]

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