The Couscous Chronicles

The Couscous Chronicles are dedicated to my parents for our all of their patience in raising and guiding me through childhood and for my father buying me my first computer back in 1984…a Commodore 64.  I also want to recognize my maternal grandparents of Kansas City, Mo., the late Ollie Mae Knox for her inspiration as an entrepreneur selling clothing out of the basement and her excellent soul food cooking, my grandfather Ellis Knox for sharing his entrepreneurial spirit during tours to his salvage yard and my paternal grandparents, the late Ernestine Labrie another entrepreneur who sold “fresh eggs” on the roadside and as an accomplished cook who provided ample me helpings of creole and cajun cooking and the late Harrington Labrie, who provided me another entrepreneurial hero in his accomplishment of being a self made insurance/cattle/oil/justice of the peace millionaire with what he described as a only a “sixth grade” education.

I also want to recognize, Eugene Varnado II for all is guidance and inspiration in putting a blog together.  Eugene is a true friend for life where he and I have known each other since the early seventies beginning in Miss Dink’s kindergarten class at Lakewood Elementary school in Park Forest, IL.  Eugene’s website the Chronicles of Roosevelt Franklin provided me a great deal of motivation to put together a blog.