Yes, my team, The Alabama Crimson Tide are the National Champions.  That means there are just about 10 1/2 months before we start to worry...

This is my November 30th post.  Yes, it is a bit late.  I could tell you about the inclement weather and power outages, but my guess is a ...

(We would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon those readers who don't care about football.  We are sorry, but for the next ...

The cool thing about having a blog is the ability to reach people, who live in cities, towns, hamlets, and godforsaken hell holes, who sha...

We love the 1920's.  We love group biographies.  We loved Judith Mackrell's first biography, Bloomsbury Ballerina .  So Flappers ...

 It is that time of the year, dear readers when you will find yourself faced with a good deal of football news.  To ease you into this, ou...

Self-Portrait by Zelda Fitzgerald In honor of Zelda Fitzgerald's birthday, we urge you to read her one and only novel.  Regardl...

Rarely does one pick up a magazine and read an article that features so many of one's favorite things.  Well miracles do happen.  I ...

We are feeling rather " tunie " these days and we do love sharing our music with you. My new favorite band is Alabama Shakes . ...

Give a friend a log of goat cheese and they have a nice appetizer. Give them a share of Belle Cheve from Kickstater and they have a share i...

...watching the Alabama-Auburn game. Hope everyone had a glorious Thanksgiving and to our friends across the pond, a lovely Thursday. Swamp...

Lurch & Holler at the Transmodern Festival 2009 ...so today when I went to get my mail, I found I had a package. Now said package did ...

Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham died on Sunday. She was one of our earliest Famous Food Friday subjects -- famous to every chil...

Harry Lowe was going through some stuff a while back and he came across a little scrapbook his mother made when she was a child. The book a...

While we have been writing about Royal weddings and fashion, the phone lines to Alabama (when they were working)have been buzzing. The good...

Today is Tallulah Bankhead's birthday. She was born 31 January 1902. She was named after a grandmother who was named for Tallulah Falls...