This book gives us a taste and flavor of life's wonderful recipe's. Wenda has opened the kitchen wide open for us and said come on in and enjoy the meal. The Gumbo is the house specialty. Stay for desert the lifes lessons only get better. Wonderful work, your talent is truly unmeasurable.....  Lenard Hay... Born in Los Angeles and raised by an old tradition of southern ways of cooking, washing, and polishing silver, by my Grandma... (Momma)  I learned about life before I was old enough to know what it was. Life has kissed me in ways only told by a wise woman. A gift to bring out words without thought.  A soul and spirit sings out with a flavor only God can give me to share with many...     If you ever been with another for years. You can pour so much of yourself into them. Then when your time is up with that person. You might start looking for that true you. Trying to figure out where did the person you remembered go? Well, after 13 years of being with one man. I woke up to find that I was lost and didn't know where to go to find me... I found a new me through writing... Not looking for the old me anymore! Pain is hard to overcome! When you don't think about it. Letting your fingers move to the beat of your heart... You can read your pain and let go! I never thought for one second that the rhythm in my pain would be open for others.  I was listening to Dr. Angelou. I knew it was time to step out on the limb and shine.