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“Your blood pressure is elevated,” said my doctor. “This is the second visit in a row. I’m going to give you six weeks and if you can’t get it down, you’re going to have to go on medication.” “Elevated?” I said. “It’s elevated because I’m at the doctor’s office getting prodded and probed in everyContinue reading “Say Nay to Na (Or How I Got the High Blood and Lived to Tell the Tale- so far)”

BOULDER, CO— I am in Colorado for a quick, fly-in, fly-out business meeting. Whenever I’m in a new town, I always ask the front desk clerk at the hotel to steer me towards the best “local” independent breakfast joint. I am sitting in The Original Pancake House eating Swedish pancakes while trying not to getContinue reading “Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice, Breakfast Joints, and Life Without Lingonberries”

Food was the great peacemaker in my neighborhood. When kids got into a fight or tussle, the resentment was usually short lived. Once we made it to someone’s house for a snack, all was forgotten.

There are two types of people in this world: Chocolate lovers and fruit lovers. Chocolate lovers pace themselves through a meal, making sure not to order too much in any one course so that they may receive their reward in the end— some type of rich, decadent, chocolate creation. Fruit lovers, on the other hand,Continue reading “Chocolate Lovers vs. Fruit Lovers”

The Saints won the Super Bowl! I had to get that off of my chest at the onset of this column. I’m published in 30 newspapers throughout Mississippi and Louisiana, and almost all of them run the column on a different day. Some of you are reading this a week after Tracy Porter snagged oneContinue reading “The Ultimate Super Bowl Party”

As the years passed, our after-church meals on Sunday moved from one place to another. Members of the family moved away, some passed away, and new members joined the troop. Our after-church meal today is a result of 21st Century lifestyles. We are a nomadic troop on Sundays. We move from restaurant to restaurant rarely eating in someone’s home.