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CONTENTS |

JANUARY 2018 • VOLUME 12 • ISSUE 1

CONT HOME + LIVING

Page 24

FOOD + FUN

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MIND + BODY

Page 54

14 POV PICK

30 POV PICK

48 POV PICK

16 CHATEAU CHIC

32 LIVING TINY IN THE SILVER FOX

50 HOME SWEET HOME

Louisiana-inspired Dinnerware

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22 THE OBSERVER Bless this Mess

24 KREATING INSPIRATION Sarah Hebert creates unique abstract paintings.

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Tessa and Brandon Chauvin enjoy a minimalist life in their Airstream.

38 OH SNAP Sneaux Day

40 HAPPY AND HEALTHE

John and Claire Kopfler promote eating healthy.

44 BON APPETIT

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President Jay Clune returns home to Nicholls State University.

52 YOUR DAILY APPLE

Get to Know Stephanie Durocher, NP

54 LOSING TO GAIN

Jason Harper’s inspirational weightloss journey

58 WE SUPPORT A HEALTHY FUTURE

Don’t Just Make New Year’s Resolutions – Keep Them

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WORD, YA HEARD HARBINGER 1. one that initiates a major change 2. something that foreshadows a future event

WORD ON THE STREET “Josh LaJaunie serves as the harbinger for over 80 people’s weight loss journey.”

“Superstition says the first person to enter your home in the New Year is a harbinger of the year to come.”

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08 EDITOR’S NOTE Be Inspired

10 INTERVUE Say What?

Page 32 Tessa and Brandon Chauvin welcome the New Year outside their tiny home, the Silver Fox. Read more on page 32.

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MARY DOWNER DITCH • MANAGING EDITOR OF POV

BE INSPIRED

It seems the most common question this time of year is “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” I hate to burst your bubble, but I don’t recall ever making a resolution! Instead, I view each day as a chance to start fresh and make a change. I know the person I am, and strive to be the best me that I can be each day. It’s not possible without a little inspiration and motivation.

I draw my inspiration from my family. As cliché as it sounds, they inspire me to keep going. My husband is kind and loving, showing endless affection towards our son and me. He inspires me to always be kind to others; you never know the struggles they might be facing. By offering a kind word or even just a smile, you can change the world around you.

Our three-year-old is my motivation when the bigger picture sometimes gets in the way. Often I forget to slow down and focus on the here and now. A toddler has a way of making you drop everything to join him in playing with his trucks or taking a moment to read him his favorite book. He lives passionately from moment to moment and sometimes so should I. One look at that adorable, albeit usually messy, face and I am inspired to take on the world.

This month, we are excited to share with you stories of inspiration and motivation. Whether it’s a journey of losing physical weight or losing material items, our stories will hopefully encourage you to reach for your goals, whatever they may be.

Sarah Hebert wasn’t always on the road to being an

artist. Drawing her inspiration from her great-grandfather, she finally put brush to canvas to “kreate” stunning Louisiana abstracts that have found their way to homes across the country. Follow along her path on page 24.

While I would be content cleaning out a closet or my pantry, Tessa and Brandon Chauvin have cleaned out their lives of unnecessary physical items and clutter, trading up for lasting memories and tiny living. They proudly welcome us into their Airstream and introduce us to their minimalist lifestyle on page 32.

In an area that is known for it’s amazing, but not always healthy, food, John and Claire Kopfler are blazing a “HEALTHe” trail. With their delicious recipes, they are proudly inspiring a new generation to choose healthy foods. Learn more about their plans to bring healthy options to Thibodaux on page 40.

As Dr. Jay Clune steps into the office of President at Nicholls State University, he is inspired and empowered by the students to help lead the university into the New Year. Join us as we welcome Dr. Clune home on page 50.

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is weight loss. As we learn from Jason Harper, there are many steps that go into making that decision and making it stick. Jason kindly shares what motivates him to continue on his weight loss journey on page 54.

We hope our Resolutions Issue helps you find your inspiration and motivates you to move in the direction of your goals in the New Year.

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“Inspiration is everywhere. Most of all, flowers inspire me, helping me to bring unique moments to life through floral arrangements. To me, making someone smile by sending an arrangement of flowers is the most rewarding feeling and I am grateful to find my inspiration there.”

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“For me it is personal growth. A recent event has given me a changed perspective. All the disappointments, failures and tragedies in my life, although each has resulted in an emotional roller coaster, have now lead me to understand that there is a seed of personal growth and opportunity for me to help others. We all have a story. Mine is to help others find theirs and tell it. ”

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After living a number of years in downtown Thibodaux, Kainen and Sarah LeBlanc stumbled across a lot in a quiet area of town and quickly made the decision to build a home to raise their family in the St. Charles Community where Sarah grew up.

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She walked through my empty house on a Thursday night. No one was home, and I asked her to pick up some items out of my laundry room and bring them to me on her way to help me at my store for an afterhours class we were hosting. I had forgotten several important items I needed, and since she lives just a few minutes away from my house, I knew she wouldn’t mind.

I was right. She didn’t mind. No complaints.

As we were prepping for the night’s events, she calmly stated how much she enjoyed going to my house by herself earlier that night. “I mean, when I walked through your house and saw the stuff scattered all over, man, it made me feel good,” she said.

She said it all with a smile, as though her words were a true compliment. (And maybe those weren’t her exact words, but I promise it’s pretty close even though it’s been a few days since she said them.) I didn’t know whether to be flattered or furious.

I opted for an eye roll. “Glad my mess made you feel good,” I said.

She didn’t really choose to stop talking at that point. Just kept on keeping on. “I mean when I saw dishes in the sink, clothes on the floor, stuff all over, it made my day,” she continued.

At this point, I’m ignoring her, but she doesn’t get the clue so she keeps talking. (I reminded myself that she was helping me out for the night, so I needed to be nice.)

It reminded me of another day when a different friend hopped into my car and said how happy my messy vehicle made her feel.

Glad that my mess makes you feel blessed, I retorted. (Not really, but I wish I would have said that because it rhymes.)

If it’s my messy house and chaotic car that help my friends love me, then so be it. I’m sure there’s some friendship quote somewhere that says messy friends are the best friends. (So I actually just did a quick Pinterest search for messy friends and there aren’t any. It instead gave me a suggested pin on “how to organize my closets.” Insert another eye roll here.)

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It is January. Depending on when you’re reading this, we are a few days or maybe a few weeks into 2018. Most of us have made some sort of New Year’s Resolution. If not a formal one, maybe an informal one, simply in our heads, saying we will eat better, exercise more, fuss less. (Notice that all resolutions involve “more” or “less.” You generally need to do more of something or less of something, and then you’ll get it exactly right.)

But if you’ve already broken one, two or ten resolutions, maybe there’s still space for you on the New Year’s Resolution winners list. Maybe tell a friend or two or three that you tried to diet, but ate leftover New Year’s brownies on the second day. Or that you promised to spend more quality time outdoors with the kids, but wound up laying on the couch in exhaustion while they ran around the house playing Nerf games that you told them were only allowed outside. (Not that this would ever have happened at our house. Ever.)

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Creating pieces from people’s imaginations into a piece of art is something Sarah Hebert has taken a liking to. Sarah is a mother, a wife, and a self-taught artist. With her business called Sarah K Kreations, she is able to paint pieces that her purchasers proudly hang onto the walls of their homes and businesses.

Art wasn’t something she guessed she would be doing as she was growing up, either. “I used to always doodle in class,” Sarah explained, “and people would tell me that I should become an artist. It wasn’t something I took too seriously, though.” She was pursuing a marketing degree at that time at Nicholls State University, which was something she knew she was already good at. Eventually, Sarah decided to explore her creativity and start her paintings. She uses it to share the beauty in things that people may not always notice, as well as a way to relieve some stress that comes along with life.

It wasn’t until recently, around August of 2017, that she began to get really into her paintings and selling them, using neutral colors to fit in every home. The vast majority of her paintings are commissioned.

For Sarah’s magnificent pieces, she likes everything to be unique, so each style of the painting comes from her head while she is bringing the buyers’ imaginations to life. Sarah notes, “There isn’t a particular style for all of my paintings, but I consider them to be abstract paintings that are very texturized. I love them to have texture!”

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Another aspect of her paintings that makes them amazing is the fact that she doesn’t stop a painting until she feels it is totally complete.

“I’m a bit of a perfectionist and refuse to finish a painting until I am completely satisfied with it,” Sarah mentions.

Most of her pieces lately have been Louisiana inspired, with incorporations of things like oysters, crabs, and pelicans. Sarah passionately

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Sarah finds the motivation to create such beautiful pieces from her great grandfather, John Arthur Hurley. Known as Pete, he was a mechanic who worked on the family farm. At the age of 38, he was diagnosed with polio, a virus that causes paralysis within the body. Pete was rendered a quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs.

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“He experienced depression after being diagnosed with this, and being unable to fully function with his limbs,” Sarah explains. “However, my great grandma began doing number paintings as therapy of her own, and challenged Pete to try it out, too.”

Pete never painted before in his life, but began the number paintings, too, as not only a hobby, but also a way to deal with his diagnosis. He would do these paintings by using his mouth. After a few years of using the number paintings, he eventually gravitated towards painting his own unique pieces, ideas for which came from his imagination instead of a numbers painting.

Sarah has two of his paintings in her possession, and she looks towards them for not only inspiration, but for motivation as well. It is her hope that Pete’s story can inspire other individuals to go after a goal or dream they’ve always had in their mind. With the New Year, lets remember it’s never too late to try something new, learn something new, or create something new.

Don’t be afraid to go after something, because you too may be able to create something beautiful. POV

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Two people, one dog, and just over 200 square feet of living space in an Airstream trailer named the Silver Fox. What to some may seem like the recipe for disaster is a dream come true for Tessa and Brandon Chauvin. From the Houma area and married in 2014, the couple has always been interested in the idea of minimalism and living tiny. Brandon even worked it into his proposal, asking Tessa if she would live in a tiny house with him. But things didn’t start off tiny.

“We got wrapped up in the traditional steps you are kind of expected to take,” Tessa explains. “We got married. We bought a big house, because it was what you did. Then pretty quickly after that we realized the way we were living wasn’t meeting up with those priorities we had set for ourselves early on in our relationship. That’s where we came back around to the idea of going tiny.”

Their first home was 2,200 square feet. The couple took a step back and started looking at the actual square footage of the house they were truly using. They realized that the tiny home dream could still become their reality. They started doing a little research and contemplated building something on a trailer or buying a premade home off the Internet to place on the Northshore where they currently live. That’s when they stumbled upon the Airstream and things just clicked.

Without any prior knowledge of remodeling or repairing, they bought the Airstream, affectionately called the Silver Fox after a story Tessa’s dad used to tell her. It was in disrepair and immediately in need of two tires before they could even tow it home from Mississippi. They joke that the work started on day one.

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It’s taking a step back and evaluating what is important and what adds meaning to your life. “You have to do some self discovery with it. It’s more than I’m just going to de-clutter, it’s realizing what’s important to you. For us, I want us to live simply and more meaningful lives together.”

“It was a leap of faith,” Brandon says.

“For me it was ultimately freeing. You don’t feel locked into anything. Suddenly its up to you; You get to decide what to bring into your life and what’s important. You need a willingness to think outside the box and maybe go without some amenities you have in a normal lifestyle.”

“I like the idea that you are surrounded by your favorites,” says Tessa. “If it’s what you decide to decorate your house with or what you wear, anything you use on a daily basis –you don’t have a lot of room, so what you have has to be something that you really enjoy. And who doesn’t want to be surrounded by all your favorite things!” POV

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For a couple that is no stranger to the restaurant business, a chance to open a small café became an opportunity to inspire members of the Houma-Thibodaux community.

Based next door to the eLearning Academy in Thibodaux, John and Claire Kopfler’s HEALTHe Café is making a positive impact on the community by exposing local people to healthy foods that may not necessarily be familiar to them.

“People don’t know what quinoa is,” said John. “Half the people that come in here whenever we do have it are like, ‘What is this?’ [The café] exposes people to other foods that are good for you that still taste good. There’s not that cardboard-tasting stigma attached to healthy food.”

HEALTHe Café opened in December of 2016 at the request of Claire’s mother, who owns the eLearning complex with Claire’s father. When the space where the café is now situated became available, her mother proposed the idea of opening a restaurant where eLearning students and staff could go for a healthy meal or snack.

Claire and John, each possessing over 10 years of experience in the restaurant industry as a dietician and restaurant manager respectively, accepted the offer.

“It was [in] December of last year that we did like a prelaunch, and we were just open for eLearning,” said Claire.

“They were honestly like our guinea pigs because we would have maybe one or two things on the menu every day, and we would see how they responded to it. From there, we built our regular, everyday menu.”

The Kopflers’ inspiration to open the HEALTHe Café’s doors to the community came when relatives of eLearning students, doctors from nearby offices and people in the area began showing up at the restaurant after hearing about it.

The café’s rotating menu features staple items like salads, wraps, and sandwiches along with specials that change every week. Many of its items come from homemade dishes.

“I guess, me being a dietician, I’ve always been interested in making healthy food, and I grew up in a very health-conscious family, so a lot of the things that we do on the menu were just things that I would make at home for myself,” said Claire.

HEALTHe Café has had a community-wide impact at a time where Claire believes Thibodaux is heading toward

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“We have parents tell us like ‘Oh, my child used to be so picky, and I’m so happy that they’re trying healthier things…” said Claire. “I think just kind of exposing the community to something different has been beneficial.”

John and Claire hope that HEALTHe Café can become a part of dietary changes amidst the annual rise of healthy-eating resolutions for the new year. They assure that such lifestyle changes can come with happiness if people are willing to make gradual routine adjustments.

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“If you make small changes, often times those trickle into bigger changes. For instance, if you come to HEALTHe Café for lunch and that’s like your healthy choice that you’re making for the day, you’re not going to wreck your good choices for the rest of the week,” said Claire.

Looking to the future, the Kopflers have dreams of expanding their services to promote farm-to-table cooking. They hope to one day have access to a garden where they can grow vegetables themselves. The couple also wishes to begin nighttime cooking classes for local children where they can subsequently walk class participants through the farm-to-table process.

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upkeep the vegetables, picking the vegetables, cleaning them, and then cooking them,” said John.

John and Claire describe themselves as a team, with Claire as the chef and John as the sous chef. It is because of their complementary abilities that they knew they could jump right into operating a restaurant.

“Whatever task we have at hand, we just split it out” said John. “As far as the creative mind, she does all that and all of the recipes and I will deal with the business side of it.”

Their advice for people who have dreams of their own is to do as they did and jump right in.

“If you wait until you’re ready, you’re never going to do it,” said Claire. “If you have the drive, and you have the dream, and it’s there, jump in.” POV

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Mooing There is a mooing competition each year in Wisconsin where participants must do their best impression of a cow.

Catfish Noodling Only legal in 15 states, noodling involves catching rather large fish with your bare hands. The noodler sticks their hand inside a catfish hole and waits for the fish to bite.

Quidditch A most common sport at Hogwarts, the muggles at Middlebury College, Vermont decided they wanted to give the wizarding sport a try. A cross between rugby, dodgeball and tag, athletes run around with broomsticks between their legs.

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There’s always something special about coming home. On January 1, 2018, Dr. Jay Clune will return home and accept his dream job, becoming the sixth President of Nicholls State University.

“Coming home is special,” shares Dr. Clune. “You never think the timing is going to be right for a presidential opening and you’re going to be in the right place in your career to take advantage of that.”

Dr. Jay Clune was born and raised in Houma, attending St. Bernadette Elementary School and Vandebilt Catholic High School, before earning his bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Nicholls State University in 1986. Dr. Clune finished his doctoral work at LSU but credits his time at Nicholls for giving him the skills to finish.

“At our graduation, the keynote speaker said your Nicholls’ degree is as valuable as a Harvard degree,” recalls Dr. Clune. “I thought about it for a while and realized he was indeed telling the truth. I owe everything to Nicholls.”

Having already met with staff and many student groups on campus, Dr. Clune has big plans in place for his new family at Nicholls. “What I’ve already observed is the faculty and students just want to be a part of it,” Dr. Clune shares. “They want me to be successful and I really can’t do it alone. Change doesn’t occur top down, it occurs bottom up.”

Energized by the student body, Dr. Clune believes they have practical ideas that can be implemented right away. He recognizes that Nicholls has wonderful core education paths in place and hopes that Nicholls can be more innovative in what they offer to meet the needs of the industries in this region.

Every great leader must draw inspiration from a strong source. Dr. Clune credits his wife Allison as his greatest inspiration, as well as his family, including his two daughters Gabrielle and Caroline, and his parents who still live in Houma.

“No one is self made,” says Dr. Clune. “You start thinking of all the teachers throughout your life and you realize at every point of your life so many people touched you and made things possible and opened doors. And I feel like I want to make them proud.

“I have a great role model, Dr. Galliano. He walked the campus and talked to students and shook their hands. I’m going to walk this campus. I want the students to know we are all in this together.”

Dr. Clune’s goal is to not only encourage the students and get them to graduation day, but for them to stay in the Bayou Region. He wants them to get involved in the community and truly become the face of Nicholls.

“The students are already inspired,” smiles Dr. Clune. “They don’t need Jay Clune to inspire them. I would like them to know I am standing side by side with them. They are the reason we are here.” POV

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Why did you choose to go into the Medical Field?

Who inspires you?

My mother and grandmother both inspire me. They were both passionate, dedicated and hard-working nurses.

My mother, grandmother and great grandmother were all nurses. I’ve dreamed of being a provider since early childhood, and I’ve always had a passion for caring for the sick and a desire to heal.

What are you most passionate about professionally? What most excites you about your work and the contributions you make?

What is your favorite part of practicing medicine?

I love my patients. I feel that it is privilege to walk with them through some of the most significant times of their lives.

What do your clients say about you?

They say that I am compassionate, and they know how much I care.

What interests you most about working at the SLMA CHC? I am excited about the culture at SLMA. It’s obvious to me that this group is truly concerned with quality patient care. The staff members are passionate and eager to make a difference. It’s something I am excited to become part of.

In general, I love people! Specifically, I am most passionate about working with the geriatric population. I have always felt a burning desire to be in their space and contribute in some way. When I was a little girl, I used to visit the halls of the nursing home where my grandmother worked and visit with the different residents. I would talk to them for hours. I feel a deep connection with them and a compassion for them. They face many losses and are in a season of life of which we all will enter one day.

I am excited to have the opportunity to make a difference in this population. It is wonderful to know that we are helping to improve the quality of life for all of our patients, old and young.

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Just after the 2018 New Year’s Day, gym traffic will surge with resolution hopefuls. For Schriever resident Jason Harper, exercising and dieting is not just for the month of January, but a continuous journey that leads to a healthier, longer, and happier life. He has four tips, gained from personal experiences, for anyone who wants to walk or maybe run down a similar path.

EDUCATION IS KEY “If you’re serious about changing your health in a sustainable way, you have to know why you are eating what you are eating,” Jason says, “Just blindly putting in food because the internet tells you it’s good may look tempting, but ask why is it working and what’s it going to do.”

Previous to 2015, the year Jason started his now roughly 100-pound-weightloss journey, he struggled to find the right diet and would gain back any weight he lost. In June of that year, when a picture of him with his youngest son was taken, Jason finally saw himself as morbidly obese and knew he had to find a diet that would stick. He started off doing a low-carb diet and was losing weight, but had no energy to exercise.

After seeing his good friend, Dan Cabirac, lose weight, Jason met him for lunch to pick his brain about his diet. Dan told Jason about his plant-based diet. Intrigued, Jason began researching vegan diets which he would begin himself a year later and continues to this day.

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT YOUR GOALS. “Surrounding yourself with people who support you and not hinder you is super important,” says Jason, “If there was someone in my life who is constantly telling me I won’t make it or what I’m doing is not sustainable, I’ll probably work myself away from that person.”

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Jason says he’s been very blessed to have a family that gives him endless support. His wife, Heather, has been with him every step of the way. She has embraced his lifestyle and is responsible for cooking his vegan meals. Jason’s work family at Chic-fil-A makes sure to include meal options for him at potluck dinners and not hassle him even though he eats the same exact salad everyday for lunch.

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FIND TOUGH GOALS. WHEN YOU OBTAIN THOSE GOALS, FIND NEW ONES. That lunch with Dan in 2015 not only got Jason to consider trying a plant-based diet, but also got him more focused on running.

Dan challenged Jason to join him in the Jazz Half Marathon in New Orleans that October.

“In about four months, I went from sitting on the couch to finishing a half marathon,” Jason says. “It took me forever to finish it, but I finished it. That was the beginning of my running journey.”

Being close to 300 pounds when he ran that first half marathon, Jason fractured a bone in his left knee during the race. He ran with pain for months after that and still signed up for other races. After another half marathon, the doctor told him no more physical activity for at least a couple months.

After the required rest, Jason continued. In March 2017, he finished his first full marathon. At that race, he signed up to do it again for 2018 and has another half marathon in June. He even ran in the 2017 Heavy Half Marathon in Leadville, Colorado, which he described as the hardest thing he has ever done in his life. The course is 7.5 miles uphill and 7.5 miles downhill.

“That race I legitimately wanted to quit 5 or 6 times,” Jason says, “I had to talk to myself to keep going.”

HAVE A BIG ‘WHY’.

“For me, it was my kids, the biggest Why I could possibly have,” Jason says, “I didn’t want my kids to be without a father. I lived my whole life wanting to be a dad and fatherhood didn’t come until later in life for me. I was 35 and 38 when my kids were born.”

At his peak, around 360 pounds, it hit Jason that he needed to lose weight so he can experience moments with his kids such as graduating and getting married. As a kid in Pottstown, Pa., he saw being big as a positive from his father who was a very large man but was happy and beloved by the people around him.

Unfortunately, it contributed to a lot of health problems for his dad, who passed away nine years ago. Experiencing first hand how the weight can affect a parent you love, Jason is changing to stick around and look after his kids, the big Why for him. POV

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With a new year comes the inevitability of setting resolutions, and breaking them within a matter of days or weeks. Many look at the New Year as a blank page, a way to write a new, healthier story for themselves. Here are some tips that might help make those resolutions stick.

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Celebrate Success If you’ve successfully gone two weeks without smoking or if you’ve lost those first five pounds, reward yourself in some small way. You’ll likely remain motivated to continue and eventually attain your bigger goal.

Be Realistic Be realistic about what you’d like to accomplish. Don’t try to quit smoking and lose weight and eat healthier and… Set smaller goals, and be specific. Instead of, “I want to lose weight,” try, “I want to lose 15 pounds by Memorial Day.”

Work on Whole Health January is the time for resolving to be healthier, and it’s the perfect time to schedule those annual physician visits.

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Challenge yourself in 2018! Ask for the help you need, celebrate your successes along the way, and if you do slip-up, realize you are human. Slip-ups are bound to happen, but don’t let them lead to abandoned commitments. Here’s to a happy, healthy new year!

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Those beautiful explosions in the sky that marked the New Year have been around for thousands of years. Not always as high-tech as we see them today, fireworks originally contained only three ingredients: sulphur, saltpetre and charcoal. Learn a few more fun facts about the dazzling displays:

• China is the largest fireworks manufacturer in the world.

• The American Pyrotechnics Association reports consumers purchased 268.4 million pounds of fireworks in 2016.

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• Walt Disney World consumes the largest amount of fireworks per year in the U.S.

• According to the Guinness World Records, the largest firework display consisted of 810,904 fireworks and lasted for one hour, one minute and 32.35 seconds. The record was achieved by Iglesia Ni Cristo at the Countdown to 2016 New Year Celebrations in the Philippines.

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UNIVERSE In the past seven weeks, we’ve survived the three major holidays of the year. I call them “the Big Three”: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. And on each of those days, we’ve probably all prepared large meat items in our kitchens—a turkey or a ham or a beef roast or something more exotic, the antlers of which are proudly displayed in some other room or “cave” of the house. Some, like me, prepared these masses of animal in our ovens in a covered steel pan enameled in a darkcolor and spotted randomly with small white dots.

The dark-enameled, white-dotted pan and cover are better known as graniteware. Enameled cooking pans and pots like modern graniteware have been around for a long time, ever since the days when Ben Franklin ruffled feathers over trying to name the turkey the national bird of the United States. So, when we talk about “holiday traditions,” we’re actually talking about more than the recipes for side items we inherited from our grandmothers.

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When you’re preparing big meat for the Big Three, you gotta wake up early, of course, because those masses of muscle take hours to cook. Like many of you, I was up earlier than normal on Thanksgiving morning and suffered for a while groggy-eyed and caffeinated. There’s something about handling cold meat on a cold morning, however, that’ll make your hands rudely wake up your brain. As I began unwrapping that defrosted 24-pound gobbler to set it into the graniteware pan, my eyes came to focus and my brain came to make logical connections for the first time since setting the alarm on my phone the night before.

It was then when I saw how the enameled pan, with its dark blue background and randomly placed white dots, resembled what I saw out the window just before I went to bed a few hours before.

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On a clear night, our nighttime sky is a big graniteware pan. It shows us random bright dots amid a dark background. What we’re actually seeing are just a few of the brightest stars nearest Earth. What we don’t see is the incredible dusting of billions of faraway stars deep into the dark blue enamel that slowly spiral around the black hole that spins our own Milky Way galaxy. And beyond that, we don’t see the collections of billions of other milky ways and their constituent stars spread across what we know of the universe.

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So, for the first time in decades of holiday cooking in the early-morning kitchens of all the generations of maternal figures in my life, I saw the

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For what seemed like light years, I held the turkey over its waiting pan until I figured out how to do what I wanted to do. Fortunately, in the kitchen cupboard were food coloring and cake decorating supplies. I washed my hands. Using the yellow cake decorating tube, I soon started connecting the white dots on the turkey pan bottom into familiar constellations, like the Dippers and Sagittarius. Not decorative enough for this epiphany, I illustrated in a palette of colors giant ringed planets, solar systems, spiraled galaxies, a couple of exotic nebulae, and even a Jules Verneera spaceship. This would be the best turkey ever!

Tradition is powerful—especially food tradition. It’s funny how a familiar food in an unfamiliar color is totally unappealing and thus inedible. It’s the very reason why someone invented browning sauce for microwaved or crock-potted slabs of meat. It’s the very reason why purple ketchup didn’t last for more than a year. And it’s the reason why we ended up having Popeye’s chicken for Thanksgiving.

So, on this past New Year’s Day, I served ham—a spiral-cut one with a bone in the center instead of a black hole. On top, I placed pineapple slices around toothpicked cherries. It looked a bit like a bunch of Saturns, and that was enough for me. For the guests as well. POV

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Explore the region’s biggest boat and RV sales event during this 20th annual event.

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Lead the Pack: A Relay for Academic Excellence Jan. 20

JC Advance Foundation’s Relay Race for Excellence will raise money for private schools in Thibodaux including St. Joseph, St. Genevieve, E.D. White and eLearning Academy. The Relay is open to everyone, not just runners. The hope is to have parents, grandparents, teachers, or students participating on 3-man teams together. Each person will complete a mile of the threemile race. Registration fee is $75 per team and the deadline to register is January 12.

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Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce 89th Annual Banquet Jan. 24, 6-9 p.m.

Join Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce for its annual celebratory banquet. Attendees enjoy a dinner, drinks and entertainment. The Chamber’s newly installed officers, outgoing officers and board members are recognized, along with a host of other awards. Keynote speaker is Phil Roop, international inspirational and motivational speaker. Tickets are available online and must be purchased in advance.

Where: Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, Houma Contact: houmachamber.com

Children’s Mini Parade Jan. 27, 11 a.m.

It’s Carnival time! The Krewe of Aphrodite and Cannata’s will host this annual Children’s Mini Parade. Children ages 12 and under are invited to decorate a mini float, and throw beads, candy and trinkets to parade-goers. No motorized floats, please. Prizes will be awarded for Best Individual Costume, Best Group Costume and Best Float. Registration begins at 10 a.m.

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Join United Way of South Louisiana at their annual cook-off competition between local vendors and companies, who craft their best gumbo, soup and chili dishes.

Overall 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards will be given as well as crowd favorite. This year will also include the Manuel Merlos Philanthropic Award, in honor of Manuel who chaired the first three events. There will be entertainment and plenty to eat for a $5 entry fee.

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1 What do Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover, Lorenzo de Medici, Betsy Ross and Pope Alexander VI have in common?

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2 January is named for Janus, who was the Roman god of what?

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3 Which NFL quarterback has the most Super Bowl touchdowns?

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4 The first Tournament of Roses parade took place on January 1 of what year?

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5 On January 3, 1987, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted their first female artist. Who was the recipient of this honor?

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C Diana Ross D Aretha Franklin

6 In 1973, which NFL team completed the first undefeated season by winning Super Bowl VII? Miami Dolphins A New Orleans Saints B

C Dallas Cowboys D New England Patriots

7 On January 24, 1950, a microwave oven patent was issued to Percy Spencer under what title?

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