One of my favorite blogs is Ginger's Deep Fried Kudzu .  Ginger is a 7th-generation Alabamian and I am convinced she knows more about ...

In life we all stumble now and then. For those of you who didn't hear, on 22 January a woman taking an adult education class at the Me...

Today is Virginia Woolf's Birthday. In honor of that occasion Paste Magazine's List of the Day features 10 songs in celebration...

Jean Simmons died yesterday. One film critic said of her: "Jean Simmons' jaw-dropping beauty often obscured a formidable acting ta...

Eugene Walter picnicing outside Rome Sooner or later Southerners all come home, not to die, but to eat gumbo. Eugene Walter ...

I love Chuck Williams. The guy is in his nineties and still goes to work everyday. I hate Chuck Williams. He goes to work every day and look...

Darlington Home of Reggie Darling, Boy Fenwick , and Pompey A lot of our Wednesday Etiquette posts feature doyennes and dowagers. Don...

Kate McGarrigle died Monday. It felt like losing someone in the family. My first exposure to the McGarrigle Sisters came from an old lp ,...

Monkton House William Dodge James was the heir to two American fortunes when he purchased West Dean Park in Sussex for his new wife in 1900....

Frank Lloyd Wright & Edgar Kaufmann , Sr. There have been reams of documentation and exposition about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater ...