According to Southern tradition, eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day brings prosperity, luck, and money to the year ahead. There are a number of tales explaining the superstition -  some sources claim it was started during the civil war when Union troops ransacked Confederate stores and left only the peas. They survived the winter, and considered the read more

There’s just something about the holidays that makes us…well, happy. For some of us, it’s the smell of cookies in the oven. Or little hands ‘decorating’ them. For some, it’s ornaments on a tree. Get-togethers with friends. And songs that start playing on the radio way before the season calls for them. Of course for read more