Do The Mardi Gras Mambo!

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It’s Fat Tuesday, Ya’ll! And if you didn’t know, Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. The New Orleans carnival season is the preparation for the start of the Christian season of Lent. It begins on Epiphany (Jan. 6th) complete with an abundance of  parades, balls, and king cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the… read more »

Weekend Of Silence….

Life Happens

This was not the post that I had scheduled. This was not the post that I probably ever anticipated writing. But there are times when life doesn’t care what you have scheduled on the calendar or what you’d prefer to blog about. Life simply happens. image via When I was really young, my mother married a man… read more »