Garden & Gun

Do ya'll know about the magazine Garden & Gun? If not ya'll are truly missing out! If you are from the south this is definitely a magazine for you. They have articles about food, homes, people, and sporting goodies. Today I found an article on southern women that is completely TRUE! I always get a sense of pride in anything southern, which i'm sure any true southerner would as well. You can find the article here. One of my favorite parts of the article: 

"To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

For my mother, being Southern means handwritten thank-you notes, using a rhino horn’s worth of salt in every recipe, and spending a minimum of twenty minutes a day in front of her makeup mirror so she can examine her beauty in “office,” “outdoor,” and “evening” illumination. It also means never leaving the house with wet hair. Not even in the case of fire. Because wet hair is low-rent. It shows you don’t care, and not caring is not something Southern women do, at least when it comes to our hair."    

So go on over and read it. Let me know your thoughts....