Nancy | Not Quite Southern

Everything Around the Kitchen Sink

By Nancy August 7, 2020Home Tour

When I stumbled across Pinterest about 7 years ago, I discovered a treasure. For years, I collected ideas in a cheap three-ring binder filled with clear plastic page protectors. It contained recipes from Southern Living (exclusively because “they”…

Dizzy Izzy

By Nancy July 31, 2020DevotionsNew dog

Thinking back on God's goodness, I have to recall the times that He's taken our most insignificant prayers so seriously. My husband and I have always made wishlists about the big decisions in our lives and…

An Unexpected Answer to Prayer

By Nancy July 22, 2020Devotions, Home Touranswered prayer, new home

We had lived for six years in a wonderful neighborhood with awesome neighbors, but for some unexplainable reason, both my husband and I felt it was time to move. We started a 3-year search for the…

Nate’s Senior Pics

By Nancy July 18, 2020PhotographySenior Pics

My oldest child, Nate, graduated May 2019. The summer before his senior year, I went into a tizzy trying to get all my parent-of-a-senior’s ducks in a row. I scheduled a college student who is majoring in Photography…

Classic Mississippi Reticence

By Nancy July 13, 2020True SouthernersMississipp, susan haltom

In 2003, my husband accepted an offer to return to Mississippi to practice medicine following a two-year fellowship at Vanderbilt in Nashville. We returned a few months before the end of the fellowship to begin the search…

Healing in the midst of a plague

By Nancy July 10, 2020Devotionscovid 19, healing, projects

Spring Break 2020. We returned home from a week in the mountains in North Georgia to chaos. In our cozy cabin, we had been somewhat isolated from the turmoil spreading as rapidly as COVID 19 in our Southern…

Price List for Oil Paintings

By Nancy July 9, 2020Painting

Oil paintings are rather expensive to produce, due to the time involved and artist-grade materials. I might be willing to negotiate on some piece or other, or I might not! I hope you'll take a look…

Not Quite Southern…HUH?

By Nancy July 8, 2020About MeLouisiana, Mississippi, Southern tradition, Texas, tradition

My husband and I have lived in Mississippi for 21 years now. We had no idea just how different our Southern experience in Texas was from Mississippi. We’ve often pondered it, making an effort to slow our speech…