by Robin | Jun 20, 2010 | Biltmore trip, Blogging, Favorite things, Personal, Photos, Southern, y'all, Travel
It was love at first sight and yet another reason j'adore the South– Twenty-three years ago hours after we said "I do," my new husband whisked me through a romantic North Carolina tour, honeymooning at two beautiful destinations: Olde...
by Robin | Jun 15, 2010 | Family Traditions, Favorite things, God's Country, Kiawah Island, Nature, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Southern, y'all, Travel
{Note: This is one time you'll want to click pictures to supersize them!In this case, bigger is better!!} The mecca of our family's summer pilgrimage is more than sand and sea… It's where the wild things are. The only high rises are Live Oaks older...
by Robin | Mar 8, 2010 | Food and Drink, Kitchen, Photos, Recipes, Southern, y'all
In my quest to not only try new recipes monthly, but to incorporate them into my culinary arsenal, I'm bound to have a combination of hits and misses. While Southern Living's "Easy Chicken & Dumplings" was an out-of-the-ballpark...
by Robin | Jan 31, 2010 | Poetry, SNOW, Southern, y'all, Weather, Winter
When the muse strikes, I'm compelled to write poetry; try as I might, I cannot ignore it when it does, nor conjure it automagically. So, when the iron is hot? I strike. When unexpected snow began accumulating, so did a niggling insistence to...
by Robin | Jan 30, 2010 | SNOW, Southern, y'all, Winter
Mention "snow" down South and it's the people who start flurrying. Most of the time it's more about puppet-master weathermen jerking our strings and engineering frenzied trips to the Publix, and you'll have a hard time convincing me they...
by Robin | Jan 29, 2010 | Favorite things, Southern, y'all, Twitter
I love being from the South. I feel sorry for people who, by virtue of birth, don't share this clear geographical advantage. I feel sorrier for the people who feel sorry for me for thinking it's something special to have been born in the...