Exploring the beautiful south together
Merry Christmas Eve! I hope that you are having the happiest of holidays. I know that this time of the year is tough for some. I am still missing my parents and I can’t believe this is my third Christmas without them. Many of my friends and family are facing their first Christmas with an [...]
This is the time of the year that Hallmark runs Christmas movies 24 hours a day. Apparently, a lot of my Facebook friends watch them. They don’t care that the movies run through the same tired plots. But it’s usually about some girl going to a small town from a bigger city and falling in [...]
My five-year-old son could hardly contain his excitement as he heard the train whistle blow. In just a few minutes we would be boarding that train and headed to the "North Pole" to see Santa. That was 13 years ago but the memory of that cold evening remains in my heart and mind. We are [...]
Editor's note: We were the guest of Greater Gadsden Area Tourism during our visit. This does not affect our story and everything here is our honest opinion. I walked through the streets of downtown Gadsden, Alabama on a late November day with a cold wind blowing in my hair while Christmas carols played. The trees [...]
I have been sitting in front of my laptop for about 20 minutes trying to find the best way to describe Euharlee's Festival of Trees without using cliches or sounding dramatic. I find myself as speechless (or wordless) as I was when I entered the former granary over the weekend for this small town Christmas [...]
The kids were lined around the block in downtown Calhoun, Ga., a small Southern town in the northwest corner of the state. Some were dressed in their finest red and green, clutching their parents’ hand as they kept their eyes on the street, anticipating the arrival of the man of the season. And when the [...]
I have a confession. I am a middle-aged woman who loves small town Christmas parades. Every year I set a goal of attending as many as possible. In the past few years, I haven’t been to any! I don’t have kids who participate in parades and often I have other commitments so I have missed [...]
