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Dear Fellow Cajun Culture Lovers

This time at the end of the year
is often accompanied by
a reflective look back AND
a hopeful look forward.

One year is dying
and another is about to be born.

To honor this time passage,
Here's an Old Cajun Toast
I heard from my Great Uncle Mose one year :


May your coffin
Be made of the finest wood
From Century-old Cypress trees

That I shall plant
Tomorrow.



I love this toast because of its fierce misdirection.

You start on the seemingly in… Continue

Once upon a time, Halloween wasn't just about costumes and parties and candy; it was about sweetly told family stories.

I am an Acadian ('Cajun,' or South Louisiana French American) by blood, earth , and disposition - my ancestors were Acadians, I was born within the culture, and I am blessed with a "joie de vie" personality. In my Cajun culture of South Louisiana (and many other cultures around the world, I have learned), late afternoon on 'All Hallow's Eve' (October 31st) primarily meant prep… Continue

In Acadiana (that Cajun part of south Louisiana), it's usually mid-September before the temperature cools down enough to pass "The Windows Down Test."

That's when passengers in a vehicle are actually comfortable with the windows DOWN while traveling.

I've lived long enough to recall when having the windows down was a given (no air conditioning in cars except for a very few), and from around Mother's Day until about a fortnight after Labor Day, it was hot going anywhere at any time.

As summer… Continue