Going Green, Social Consciousness, and Our Kids

We are being inundated with green issues such as global warming and new products that will help us be “greener,” but sometimes we forget another aspect of being green – social consciousness. You have probably seen me write about the three R’s: reduce, reuse, and recycle. But what about remember, as in remember those less fortunate than us. Is there any better lesson to teach your children? Social consciousness starts at home. What better way to teach our children to make the world a better place than to volunteer and take them along with us? Food banks always need a … Continue reading

What’s a Cuculoupe?

What do you get when you cross a cucumber and a cantaloupe? If you are a Louisiana farmer you get national exposure and chance for your unusual piece of produce to be gobbled up on air by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. “It’s good,” said Ripa on Wednesday morning’s “Live with Regis and Kelly” show. It’s like a “less-sweet cantaloupe” that would be “very good with vodka.” With that said thousands of viewers have been clamoring to take a bite of their own “cuculoupe.” That’s what the growers of the Louisiana-grown oddity named it. The Dusenbery family of Houma, Louisiana … Continue reading