I'll be honest, I could never come up with a good reason say anything nice about Auburn. Then, Samuel Mockbee  co-founded Rural Studi...

We have been sick since before Christmas!  Of course, that is no reason not to keep one's blog moving forward...or is it? Oh well, ...

The first time we saw this little cottage was in a magazine in D.C.  It was featured along with million dollar houses that had been single...

  You know how it is.  You want to move a lamp from this table to that.  But, it is heavy, the cord gets tangled, the outlet doesn'...

 I do hate it when people just drop off the face of the earth.   Good news:  I was not abducted by aliens.   Bad news:  I was traveling an...

We have been waiting patiently for Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House it finally see covers. The book showcases James Lowell Strick...

Today is Eero Saarinen's 100 th birthday. It is also the 137 th birthday of his father, Eliel Saarinen, the first President of Cr...

There was a lot of talk on numerous blogs about Susan Sully's The Southern Cosmopolitan . That was not the only book that Susan Sully ...