Southern Journal
I grew to love it, though. City time is like dog years: A year in New York equals 7 in Alabama. So when I moved home last April, I had some reentry problems after spending 42…
Tips on Tipping
The best tip on tipping doesn’t involve money. Your server is not your servant. Look up from the menu when they come to the table. Don’t begin sentences with “Give me the . . .”…
Oh Christmas Tree
Not for amateurs, this business of picking the perfect Christmas tree. A real tree just makes Christmas—pine in the air, sap on the furniture, needles in the carpet, the whole…
Putting on the Squeeze
Sure, there are some rules. (As a former youth counselor advised, keeping the Holy Spirit between hugging and dancing young folk is probably a good idea although there seems to be…
Virginia’s Best Ice Cream
For 65 years, this tiny operation has been producing some of the highest quality milk in Virginia. Three generations of Bergeys continue an enterprise almost unheard of in the…
Lead Foot Edwina
Edwina routinely drives at a speed equal to her age-which polite grandsons don’t mention in major magazines. Let’s just say it’s over any legal limit here in America. “I know I’m…