•    •  March

My twenty-something niece left a nice paying job—albeit a boring one, to work for a funeral home in Dallas, Texas. She transports the dead. It sounded odd to me, too. But when I took time to ask her about it, her choice became much clearer. Life’s like that. Questions will get you everywhere. Still, Blair was quick to acknowledge that her job has its own

I saw Betty Ann Bender yesterday morning and she was fit to be tied. Her husband had left the house without mentioning their anniversary. And it wasn’t just any anniversary. It was their tenth. Betty Ann said she wasn’t really expecting diamonds and roses as Sam has never been the romantic kind, but she was hoping he would at least remember. He didn’t. I asked

I enjoy quoting famous southerners in this “Southern Quote” segment of our porch visits, but I’m just as determined not to neglect the entertaining local wisdom of our region. So today, we’re going to examine one of our more common southern sayings. We southerners all know that when someone begins anything by saying, “I’ll tell you how the cow ate the cabbage”, this person is