by Patrice Doucet | Oct 26, 2024 | Health
The Sweet Revenge of Diabetes Among the eight leading chronic diseases in the U.S., which include heart disease and cancer, diabetes, particularly Type 2, is thought to be the defining disease of this century. That’s because it is THE major cause of blindness, kidney...
by Patrice Doucet | Oct 26, 2024 | Download, Health, Seafood
It’s a longtime seafood industry, but still not widely known to the public: soft-shell crabs. Consumers are familiar with the hard-shell crabs, but a surprising number – even some Cajuns – have not tried their soft edible versions. In 2017, 10,865 pounds of...
by Patrice Doucet | Oct 26, 2024 | Health
It’s been said that a hairdresser’s chair is “not just a place of work; it’s a stage where you transform lives, one hairstyle at a time.” With every snip and roll of the brush, Pam Blakely, owner of Pam’s Hair Hut in Delcambre, has let her passion (and compassion)...
by Patrice Doucet | Oct 26, 2024 | Health
Recently I talked shop with leather craftsman James Hebert of Hebert Leatherworks. James is one of the craftsmen continuing an age-old tradition that he began out of necessity. “I had horses and my sons participated in rodeos and horse shows, and I started repairing...
by Laurel Blackerby | Oct 2, 2024 | Health
They say luck is when preparation meets opportunity and that’s just about what happened to Christopher “Tipper” Esponge – albeit the hard way. After an accident during an army training exercise in 2009 left him in a wheelchair, Esponge was presented with another way...
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