mardi gras beads

With Mardi Gras comes lots of beads, if you're lucky. The issue then becomes what to do with all of those beads you and your family caught.

Mardi Gras in South Louisiana is kind of like breathing - we just do it. There are so many historical traditions, we rarely think about the significance of what we're doing. Why do we even throw beads at Mardi Gras?

Last night, during the Siberian Mardi Gras parade, Heather told me something I didn't know. She informed me that there are civic groups who send folks out to catch beads and donate them to the civic groups who, in turn, use them to raise funds . What a great idea. When I got to the radio station this morning, I saw a post from KPLC about just one of those groups, so I thought I'd pass along the in