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The southern tradition on New Year’s Day is to eat black-eyed peas for good luck and prosperity. Our church had an open house today for folks to stop by for a lunch of black-eyed peas with rice (put together, they make hoppin’ john), collard gr…

We’ve been enjoying a multitude of Winter beers and special releases lately. The beers of Winter are among my favorites, but that doesn’t mean that’s all we drink this time of year. Although these seasonal releases still take up most of the refrigerato…

Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil WarBy Victoria E. OttSouthern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2008ISBN 9780809328284As I continue to read Confederate Daughters, I was fascinated by the discussion of the ways in which these …

The December giveaway sponsored by Awesomedeals911 was very popular. 38 readers submitted a total 68 comments in December. The randomly selected winner of the Brooklyn Brewery bar stool is Bryan of Fredericksburg. Bryan blogs at In The ‘BurgCongratulat…

FOXNews.com – Zune Extinction Event: Microsoft Music Players All Freeze Up at Once – Science News | Science Technology | Technology News – MS forgot to account for leap year and thousands of 30 B Zune music players stopped working today as a result.

So I won the Ticket to Ride game last night, which gave me the honor of picking the next game. I picked Scrabble, which was stupid because I never win at Scrabble. I was in the lead in game 2 last night all the way to the final play, where Michelle used all her letters […]