An Almost Southern Way of Life Blog & Art Showcase
2020 has been full of the unexpected and usual! On Tuesday, a friend stated, “We are voting for riots or socialism this year.” I can’t let the weekly blog go by this particular week without encouraging myself and anyone else who may be considering the outcome of our contentious political races with some amount…
Where has the year gone? It feels like Spring Break was last week! I guess the non-celebrations of milestones and events this COVID-19 year has contorted my sense of time. Tomorrow is Halloween, and all we’ve got on the schedule is Eli’s Chess Tournament at school and Liz’s friend’s birthday party. Nate’s staying in…
You may remember my post on our starting point in building our dream house—the east-facing window over the kitchen sink. When that point of reference was fully “pinned” down, we started thinking about the arrangement of the rest of the house around the kitchen. It’s strange that the only requirement I had…
Moving to Flowood, Mississippi (a suburb of Jackson) from inner-city Houston, Texas, was a life-changer for me and my hubby in 1999. On the first night in our new home, neither one of us could sleep. We sat in the dark living room and discussed our fears, staring wide-eyed at our huge…
I admit it: I go a little crazy in the Fall. I can’t get enough pumpkins on the porch to satisfy me, and there are way too many little pumpkins scattered throughout the house. I even started setting out pumpkins the middle of August! My excuse was that I was…
After a recent trip to the grocery store (a very rare one during these days of COVID-19), I unpacked my plastic bags and noticed an interesting assortment of items that I’d picked up and set aside to put in the pantry. How funny that my week’s menu represented four different…
A couple of days ago, my hubby came back from a very long evening walk to report on all the neighbors he’d seen. Most evenings, I join him on the walk, and we see almost no one. There’s something about him going somewhere—anywhere—alone. He is a social magnet! Anyway, my hubby announced that…
Our family has a special lady in our lives, whom we’ve affectionately nicknamed “Mamaw.” My husband and I met her and her daughter at church the first Sunday after we moved to Mississippi from Texas. Her daughter Barbara had been alerted to the day of our arrival by a mutual friend in…
A while back, my favorite blogger initiated a painting project that inspired me. She challenged herself to paint 100 meadows in oil, a medium with which she was not so comfortable. And she chose to do it on 100 blue index cards. I tend to stick to photographs that I’ve taken…
Have you ever heard something silly that tickled you pink? I mean, it settled so deeply in your giggle box that you struggle to not think about it and burst out laughing again? Well, sometimes we need something silly to help us through the most difficult days, and my husband…