Current Arkansas State Nut Queen #2

A friend just sent this to me. She doesn't know who wrote it but I thought that it was worth passing on:

We forget that we really are part of that force for good that is the United States of America.

Each time we smile and say excuse me, or thank you to a stranger, each time we let someone ahead of us in the grocery store line, we are part of the good that is in America. Every time we mow the bit of lawn up to the neighbor's driveway, and they mow up to the next one, and so on, we are all part… Continue

The phone rang. The screen identifier read: Sister Nettiebelle iz up to sumpin. Run Fast!

Now, I’d prefer to rake up gumballs with my bare toes in the backyard than to get roped into one of Sister’s shenanigans. So, I let her ring.

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When you become an old Southern Granny, nothing is off limits to your imagination. If you were to visit my workplace on any given weekday around lunch time, you might think you had entered the place where SNL skits are written (which, btw, was new and wickedly funny in our young adult days.) Our topics of amusement range from scatological to bawdy. Yesterday, being more sedate after a really good lunch you would have heard our rendition of the ever popular but very old column that runs in the

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I know you are wondering what kind of tale I am telling with a title like that. Well, I’m getting to it, so just bear with me.

I just got back from one of my weekend visits to Daddy and Saint Elaine (my beloved Stepmomma) in rural Mississippi, somewhere north of Tupelo. Going for a weekend visit is the closest thing to a homecoming this side of heaven that I’ll ever experience. As soon as I turn into the driveway, they are standing on the front porch, waving and grinning, arms wide open. I mana… Continue

This blog should probably be posted under the group "Now We're Cooking," but what the Elsie.

Many of you probably don't know that Gale Borden gave Eagle Brand Condensed and Sweetened Condensed Milk to the world in 1856. The Civil War made it a household name. It was eventually credited with lowering the infant mortality rate in the United States.What a gift!

Most of my favorite Christmas delicacies involve using Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk. When growing up, every year my Ma made Hello… Continue