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Relaxing Retreats
I’ve been on a mission to find some of the most peaceful retreats and destinations spas around North America. I’ve also been fortunate to visit a good many of these places during the course of my...
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Thoughts on the Emergency Alert System – Musings During TS #Lee
I work in Emergency Services, so I’m well aware of preparation and safety for almost any type of disaster, even the Zombie Apocalypse. Fortunately, during Tropical Storm Lee, I had the weekend off and...
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Chasing Rainbows
This morning I did a search for a song to Blip and up popped a name I hadn’t thought about in a long time — blues musician Johnny Adams. When I was in college, I worked summers, weekends, and some...
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The Course Marshall and the ABC Man
This post was inspired by Paige Bowers who left a comment on my Johnny Adams post asking if selling used golf balls was a lucrative business. For a few months during my golf career, I was assigned to...
View ArticleLouisiana: A Guide to the State {1945}
Published in 1947 as part of the Federal Writer’s Program, Louisiana: A Guide to the State is a travel guide from the past. Every once in a while I like to research a tourism site or city to see how it...
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You bet your sweet ash
Today in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ash began to fall from the sky and the sweet smell of sugarcane fields drifted to my side of the Mississippi. Each year during the sugarcane harvest, the remnants of the...
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Adventures in Social Media at Women in Media of Baton Rouge
The above quote says it all, because I didn’t get here alone. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking to Women in Media in the Baton Rouge area. I always enjoy sharing the story of how my life path...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of “You Are My Sunshine”
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are grey.” So goes the opening lines of Louisiana’s state song “You Are My Sunshine” by Governor Jimmie Davis (who originally...
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Sharing Baton Rouge Family Fun with viewers of Lifetime Television #travel #GoBR
Last week was fun and somewhat unbelievable. I was on Lifetime TV’s show Designing Spaces, Kids Spaces highlighting some of the family friendly attractions in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We filmed this...
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Louisiana Gumbo Seasoned with Travel and Good Friends
A few weeks ago while in Ely, Cambridgeshire in the UK with friends, we took turns making one of our favorite dishes. Denise, Susan, and Bridget had always wanted to taste some of my gumbo, so I packed...
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