I honor, love and admire my parents. Both of them are mid-century warriors who stared racial and gender inequality in the eye and came...

What makes you happy? Some folks will say money or peace. Some will say quiet or partying. Others will find happiness in an herb or a...

I’ve been busy. I mean like, everyday I’m hustling busy. Let’s run through the things I managed to manifest (read: God gave me the power...

It’s officially Fall. We’ve crested the autumnal equinox. Leaves have been given the okay to put on their golden frocks and swirl their...

It seems like I’ve been baking for forever. As long as I can remember, I’ve been making batter and tossing it in the oven, hoping what...

My father’s family left Louisiana for Southeast Texas in the early-60’s. It wasn’t a big jump, not even 100 miles, but it changed life...

I know you’ve heard it before, mainly because i’ve said it several times myself here, Cooking is Art, but Baking is Science. And i got a...

I hope you and yours are well in this bizarre time. While i don’t want to validate this nuisance, you have to call a demon by its name to...

It’s been too long, i know. Charge it to my head, not my heart as I’ve been extremely busy preparing for and executing this cross...

i can’t. i cannot. i cannot with this today. The things that happen in my life and that of those around me never cease to amaze me from...

October is next week. Next week. It’s almost October… My disbelief comes not from how quickly the year has flown by, though it has, but...

So i was going back over some of my earlier blogs and had to laugh at this one. It was fascinating/overwhelming me that new flavors and...

I have a 2 year old spaniel named Franklin Delano Brown. Why Delano? Because i couldn’t think of anything else that fit so well with...

Blessings tend to find me. Even when I’m not looking, thinking or anticipating any. Trust, i am not mad at that at all! Do i deserve...

Cuz it’s Summertime! Will Smith’s finest – second only to the bare chest scene from Bad Boys… but i digress. She’s here! She’s here! I’m...

When you think “con game”, you think of being swindled, stolen from, hoodwinked. But that’s not the whole story. While the original...

You know how those info grabbing sites can search your facebook and tell you which words you use most often? (btw, stay off those...

As most of you know (or those who were paying attention to my repetitive posts about it), i participated in a small farmers’ market last...

Alan Thicke was one of the coolest, corniest dads on television. But that’s not what this post is about… So y’all remember this business...

Groundhog, schmoundhog… This is Southern California and we don’t do seasons! It’ll be winter, spring and summer all in one week and we...