A Little Cajun, A Little Creole and a Lot of Cuisine!

After suffering high temperatures and suffocating humidity, New Orleans still left me wanting more. Music filled the thick night air and morning haze raising spirits with rousing beats while restaurant and bakery kitchens wafted alluring aromas into the streets even without a hint of a breeze. Most impressive is the fact that dining out three [...]

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Shark’s Cove Review Becomes a Photo Shoot on the Beach

As long as I can recall my feet have always had sparks beneath my heels.  I can’t stay in one place for long periods of time.  The road, the sky and even the ocean beckon me from afar. When my online friend, Tonia, mentioned her layover on the first leg of her journey to Australia, [...]

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I Want S’more

I’m a sucker for a trip: long, short, far, or near, with friends or without, to see family or to meet new people.  I love tasting local foods, learning from different cultures and sharing new recipes that I collect along the way. My love of travel is no secret.  In the past year, I traversed [...]

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Romancing My Breakfast

Rarely, if ever, is staying away from home immensely pleasurable for me. Over the years, I’ve learned to make my lodgings the least of my expectations — following close behind unreliable flight departure times. As a result I can sleep soundly as long as darkness envelopes me and I am content if some means of [...]

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Madame Donna Hikes Zion Canyon, Utah

All this is the music of waters.” John Wesley Powell, 1895 When I signed in at the Red Mountain Spa last week, I noticed this motto in the folder of information they handed me: “For A Healthy Inside, Go Outside.” Mini-Madame #1 and I laughed over that one because “go outside” was a centerpiece phrase [...]

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