Southern ladies

If you're a Southern woman like me (born in Georgia, raised in North Carolina, Florida, and Texas), there are certain habits, manners, and traits...

The North is a direction. The South is a lifestyle As a young girl born and raised in Kentucky, I was taught the ways of the South. My mama didn’t raise no fool- and because of that, I have i…

Depending on where you grew up or have lived for a number of years, you might be more familiar with certain sayings, words, and phrases, or use them more frequently. In parts of the Midwest, for example, a water fountain is a "bubbler." And while it…

We need all the help we can get—and she seems to be right about everything.

"Like many Southern women, my grandmother learned from her mother to always show up with her most confident foot forward. "Dress like your arch nemesis is going to be by the cocktail meatballs," she once told me. I had a feeling that one came from personal experience. I grew up wanting to be just like her, wearing the same shade of red lipstick (a dream I had to retire, as it looked terrible on me) and walking in the same cloud of perfume. And within that cloud, I knew that I should be…

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The best things I’ve learned about life from the black-coffee-drinking, obituary-reading, tomato-growing, sassy Southern women in my life. #southern #womanhood

Suddenly words are enunciated differently, and you’re saying things like “Bless her heart.”

These are the Southern style rules our mamas and grandmamas have passed down to us, and the learnings we've come to acquire along the way.

They work and can have professional, high-earning jobs, but they know that a career or a promotion or an extra thousand dollars a month isn’t going to be what keeps them really happy or makes…