This gift encompasses two things that delight me: gumbo and playfulness with words.

Gumbo is a “fusion of culinary creativity that all landed in one massive pot”.

Our January blooms are sprawling wildly, bursting with color, ignoring the season, crowding each other and competing for Most Beautiful.

Hollandaise is a perfect little creation, a bright, tart and smooth sauce that transforms whatever it tops.

Another original jazz composition by our Musical Millennial, performed live by the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra. It is soooooo upbeat and fun!

The only metric that means anything to me is to have touched another person or two in some way.

Hollandaise in a jar or a package is fake food. Period.

In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, “We are losing our listening.”

What to do with leftover seafood boil yumminess? How about an omelet? It makes a perfect brunch.

Seagulls and brown pelicans in Bay St. Louis give me a lesson in mindfulness reminiscent of Thoreau’s experience at Walden

There’s a birding boat in our future!

Everyone touches the world in their own way. Making my own tiny imprint through this blog, I want to write more about the gentle things in life.

I’d like to get better at being in the moment, truly living, absorbing, feeling, whatever it is that I’m doing. Being more mindful, overall.

A seafood boil is a communal experience, something you eat with your hands, get all over your face and don’t regret a messy morsel of.

What to do with that leftover ham? Here are almost 50 recipes.

Because there aren’t enough pictures of cats in the world, especially cats at Christmas, here are a few from our archive.