by Leslie Sholly | Sep 26, 2017 | Catholicism, Everyday Ediths, family, FIRE, The South
“Blood is thicker than water,” was one of my maternal grandmother’s favorite sayings. Family was everything to her. She was extremely proud of her Southern and Irish roots, and often shared tales—possibly apocryphal—of the family history. We are blessed to have...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 14, 2017 | Genealogy, Politics, The South
I was eight years old, curled up on the naugahyde sofa in my grandmother’s basement, when I found my great-grandmother’s copy of Gone with the Wind, the commemorative movie edition. I read it literally to pieces and I can recite the entire first...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 19, 2017 | family, The South, Uncategorized, Vacations
We didn’t go anywhere for Spring Break this year, except to the zoo. Today’s planned trip to Dollywood was canceled due to illness. So I got to feeling nostalgic about last year’s Spring Break trip, which I had never gotten around to sharing here....
by Leslie Sholly | Jan 1, 2014 | cooking, Deep Thoughts, food, The South
It’s New Years Day and y’all know what that means, right? Black-eyed peas and greens, at least for us Southerners. As long as I can remember, my mother forced us to eat at least one bite of black-eyed peas each New Years Day, “For luck,” she...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 25, 2012 | language, The South
Whoa! Sounds fancy, doesn’t it? It’s hard to believe that something many people consider “bad grammar” has such a fancy name. So what the hell am I talking about? From Wikipedia: “A modal verb (also modal, modal auxiliary verb, modal...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 11, 2012 | language, The South
No snarky comments about the title, please! If you aren’t a lover of language and words like I am, you might not realize that all dialects have their own internal grammar and operate according to rules. And I’m going to write from time to time about the...