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Sweet Tea: The Heart of Southern Hospitality

As it happens, I was reading a post this morning that listed offbeat holidays, and it turns out that June is National Iced Tea Month. Who knew, right? (June 26 is also National Coconut Day, but I digress.) I felt compelled to add a post of my own to celebrate this beverage that dominates Southern Continue reading
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Remembering Kate: A Southern Beauty Shop Legacy

Our paternal grandmother, Sally Kate, was a beautician. Not a hair designer, nor a hairstylist…a beautician. Now, she would use the word “hairdresser” sometimes in the 1970s, as a nod to the more modern terminology, and as an acknowledgment that she could actually dress hair; but she usually described herself as a beautician, because it Continue reading
