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Lottie’s Chicken and Dumplings1 comment

rgleg922 wrote 5 days ago: A friend of the family posted my mother’s recipe for Chicken and Dumplings here: Red Velvet Wi … more →

Tags: cooking, Life, Food

Top 15 Songs of 2000s

James Pressley wrote 1 week ago: Top 15 Songs of the 2000’s. Yep I got 15. Why? I dunno… I’m just that way. Just th … more →

Dove is Better than Chicken

Black Coffee & Bourbon wrote 1 week ago: This evening Steve invited Becks, Mason and I over his house for a cookout.  He said he was going to … more →

Tags: Food, Bacon Wrapped Dove Breast, Dove, Eating Dove

Meetings...

James Pressley wrote 3 weeks ago: From time to time you sit in wonder of the people you meet, the places you go, and occasionally if y … more →

Jim Kilgo

James Pressley wrote 3 weeks ago: For some reason I got to thinking about a good friend of mine who is now gone. James Kilgo. Some of … more →

Seasons

James Pressley wrote 1 month ago: Being a good ol’ boy from middle Georgia I love seasons. I love the change of seasons. Ours ar … more →

How to Cure a Frying Pan4 comments

rgleg922 wrote 2 months ago: In the fall, kill a mature sow. They say it’s best to do this by the light of a full moon, but … more →

Tags: cooking, Essay, Fiction, Life, Rural, farming, rural life

Ice Tea2 comments

Christopher Mitchell wrote 2 months ago: Throughout my life there is one thing that has remained constant as the North Star…Ice Tea. Fresh-br … more →

Tags: Iced Tea, southern, Southern Culture, Sweet Tea, Tea

Janie McGee, Painter

Ayanna Nahmias wrote 4 months ago: My sister-in-law is a painter whose themes focus on the Black American experience.  She is quite tal … more →

Tags: Art, African American Art, African-American Southern Life, black art, black female artists, black paintings, Black Southern Life, Civil Rights, civil rights issues

View from the Oak

Miranda Hull wrote 4 months ago: Debilitatingly overeducated twentieth century woman with literary bent and Celtic roots overcomes od … more →

Tags: Family Life, 1, Postmodern Family Life, american family life

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia- A Life In Poems1 comment

yvonnemason wrote 5 months ago:     Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia – A Life in Poems Ms. Dorsey has taken her knowledge … more →

Tags: Yvonne Mason, Family, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia A Life In Poems, Patricia Neely Dorsey, Southern Gentlemen, Southern Culture, Grits

A Baptism in Moniac 2 comments

Black Coffee & Bourbon wrote 5 months ago: Kayla being baptized This morning we drove to Moniac , Georgia to watch Becky’s cousin’s daughter be … more →

Tags: Travel, church, Family, Georgia, Life, grilling, Extended Family, Baptism, Moniac

The Secret Life of Bees

willinghamsum09 wrote 5 months ago: 5Q 5P J  S Kidd, Sue Monk (2002). The Secret Life of Bees. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 302 p. I … more →

Tags: Family Abuse, Outstanding Books for the College Bound

You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello4 comments

Cheddar wrote 6 months ago: Better late than never… Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do … more →

Tags: Life Below the Mason-Dixon Line, Stream of Consciousness, change, Da Souf, fireflies, New Job, racists still exist

Wordless Wednesday: Checkout3 comments

Cheddar wrote 7 months ago: Yet another episode of stealth photography for Wordless Wednesday (if you’re on the West Coast … more →

Tags: Life Below the Mason-Dixon Line, Wordless Wednesday, Mullet

Where the Heart Lies14 comments

Teresa Silverthorn wrote 8 months ago: There’s something about sleepy, Southern nights That wakes the soul It happens when the dust s … more →

Tags: AUTO-BIOGRAPHY, true stories, Freedom, Philosophy, spirituality, Wisdom, New Beginning, Peace, soul

The Difference Between A Hootnanny And A Shindig1 comment

ohfudgeit wrote 9 months ago: In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought we’d do a story  about properly defining partie … more →

Tags: Humor

The South

rebelsouth wrote 1 year ago: There is something completely…different about growing up Southern.  It’s a difficult thi … more →

Sweet Gator Lady10 comments

Julie wrote 1 year ago: This poem now published in Shoots & Vines. . Aunt Aggie & The Alligators by Julie Buffaloe-Y … more →

Tags: Poetry, Add new tag, eminent domain, characters with soul, Alligators, Southern poetry, Southern poets, Southern Gothic


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