‘Just Chillin’


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Ask a child, in case you have not heard of Todd- Michael St. Pierre. Most love his books:


“Chicory & Roux” and “A Wooly Mammoth


best. of


Michael St. Pierre is as- tonishingly


Creole Foodie—many cookbooks to his credit, a poet, a musician, popular storyteller, and excellent children’s books author. Sixteen years ago, Todd-Mi-


chael wrote a poem: “My Dream (A Vision of Peace). Reading it is a boost to start fresh and new in 2018:


“Where the mountains touch the sky, Where poets DREAM, where eagles fl y


A secret place above the crowd Just beneath a silver-lined cloud.


Liſt your eyes to a snowy peak And see the soon-to-be we seek Whisper DREAMS and let them rise, To the mountains old and wise


Climbers climb, it’s time to try Where the mountains touch the sky Take me there. Oh take me now… Someway, Someday, Somewhere,


multi-talent- ed. A Cajun/


Todd- his


on Ame- lia Street!” two


A little History...& More!


Where the ocean meets the sky Where the dolphin dance and seagulls fl y


A place in DREAMS, I know so well, T e sea inside a single shell.


Far across the living sea A pale blue possibility Beyond the castles made of sand Tomorrow in a small child’s hand.


Only DREAMERS need apply Where the ocean meets the sky Take me there. Oh take me now…”


Fellow foodies enjoy his “Taste of Treme:


cations, including a listing of GEAUX Purple and Gold: T e Louisiana Tailgating Cookbook by St. Pierre. Made of purple and pure gold maybe, a collectible now because the paperback—and maybe there really is only one leſt —is listed for $788.29. Wow! T at price tag for an artistic cre-


ation is “peanuts” compared to the whopping winning bid that won the hotly contested “Salva- tor Mundi” Da Vinci painting at Christie’s auction in NYC in No- vember. A Saudi prince smiled demurely when he won, so they say. T e price tag was over $450.3 million US dollars. Anything can


Amazon has all his publi-


Food from New Orleans’ Famous Neighborhood of Jazz” cook- book.


Creole, Cajun and Soul


happen in New York City! To celebrate, maybe the Prince


was able to get reservations on New Year’s Eve for a dinner party at the al- most re- vered Em- pire Steak House


East, at 151 East 50th Street.


T eir fea- tured holi- day din- ner, or so New York friends


told me--- wait a min- ute, can that be???- -- cost $10,000


UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • January 2018 • 5


CALLING ALL DREAMERS! by Ellie Schmidt ~ eschmidt@upbeattimes.com Somehow!


45, they are seriously off ering to pay new residents about $25,200 US dollars per adult and $10,000 per child.


You must choose a permanent home, not a second res- idence. Re- mote work- ers take heed! –Of course, it is marvelous in Spring and Sum- mer—but


JOKES & Humor # 2 To get my cousin to write


to her even once, my aunt resorted to sending him a check with this note: “Do not cash until you write me a thank-you.” A few weeks later, the check had cleared, yet no message had arrived. So she called him.


“I told you not to cash the check until you’d written to thank me,” she complained.


per per- son! Now that has to be the pinnacle of what was termed by hippies of the distant past: “wretched excess.” T e own- ers are three Sinanaj brothers: Russ, Jack and Jeff who have 40 years of experience and more than four NYC restaurants now that are given superb, rave re- views everywhere. Feeling poorly? Nah…consider


the frugal Swiss and their unusu- ally generous off er in the stun- ningly beautiful Swiss Alps vil- lage: Albinen. If you agree to live there for a decade—but they hope longer—and if you’re under age


www.williebirdsrestaurant.com


A Sonoma County Tradition! “Turkey always and turkey all ways!”


you had better love a whole lot of snow the rest of the year. Cur- rent popu- lation: 240. My Swiss friends


to say, “Fondue isch guet und gite gueti Luune” (In Swiss Valais they speak French, German and


... continued on page 16 taught me


“I didn’t cash the check,” he said. “I deposited it.”


“She was a beautiful dreamer. T e kind


of girl, who kept her head in the clouds,


loved above the stars and leſt regret be- neath the earth she walked on.” Robert M. Drake


Wishing More Joy in 2018!


Happy New Year


Now serving Purium love Shakes & cermonial cocao to help you connect within


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Williebird’s Restaurant 1150 Santa Rosa Ave


Santa Rosa • 707-542-0861


Restaurant Hours: Monday - Saturday 7:00AM - 9:00PM Sunday 7:00AM - 8:00PM


Williebird’s Retail Store 5350 HWY 12,


Santa Rosa • 707-545-2832 “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” ~ Winston S. Churchill UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • January 2018 • 5


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