One of my favorite things to do in the spring and summer is visit our local farmers’ market. On our most recent trip, my husband and I came back with some gorgeous tomatoes for caprese salads, peaches for smoothies, and zucchini for…we weren’t quite sure. I can’t resist a good deal, and one of the booths had gorgeous summer squash for a great price. “We’ll find something to do with it!...
Last month, John Hager, father-in-law to Jenna Bush Hager and father to Henry Hager and the former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, passed away. On TODAY with Hoda and Jenna Monday morning, Bush Hager shared the touching eulogy her husband Henry gave in his dad’s honor this past weekend to her co-host, Hoda Kotb. “I went down [to Virginia] for 24 hours to celebrate my father-in-law’s life, it was really beautiful. It was just the five of us—my mother-in-law, Maggie, Henry, and his brother Jack and Katharine, his wife and me....
As the new documentary Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon hits theaters, Cash’s son is sharing new memories of his father. John Carter Cash, the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, teamed up with his aunt Joanne Cash for the new film that looks at the spiritual side of the Man in Black. The film features never-before-heard conversations with Cash himself reflecting on his journey and his battles with some personal demons that lead him down a road to redemption and an “unshakeable faith”....
An 8-year-old boy from Kentucky found a sweet way to honor the memory of his late younger brother. Greyson Brooks recently delivered $350 worth of crayons, markers, and writing paper to Estes Elementary School in Owensboro. The third grader asked that the supplies be used by incoming kindergartners because that’s the class his brother, Wyatt, would have been in. “He doesn’t want Wyatt to be forgotten,” mom Destiny Hayes told Today....
In the springtime, nothing hits the spot like berries. Even if it’s in, you know, doughnut form. Behold: Krispy Kreme has brought back two of its favorite doughnuts — the Strawberry Glazed Doughnut and the Strawberry Kreme Filled Doughnut — for a limited-time only starting on Monday, April 26 and running through Thursday, May 6. The doughnuts will be available at participating Krispy Kreme shops across the United States. The Strawberry Glazed Doughnut (pictured above) is described as “the iconic Original Glazed Doughnut transformed by a vibrant strawberry glaze with fresh strawberry flavor,” while the Strawberry Kreme Filled Doughnut (pictured below) is covered in strawberry glaze and then filled with Strawberry Kreme for a double dose of strawberry goodness....
Is it possible to adore the laugh-out-loud funny Netflix sitcom Grace and Frankie starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda any more than we already do? We didn’t think so. Well, it may very well be possible, thanks to new intel from Tomlin revealed on a recent appearance on Today with Hoda & Jenna. Beaming in remotely to hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb, Tomlin discusses several topics, from why she thinks viewers are so drawn to Grace and Frankie to producing the movie Radium Girls and an accompanying petition with The Sierra Club to ban and clean up toxic “forever chemicals....
Find a reason to celebrate and hold on tight. After so many postponed weddings and Zoom parties, we’re not letting any milestone go under the radar. In 2023, we’re celebrating everything and anything. “People are ready to get back and celebrate,” says Tiffany Pilgrim, owner of Baton Rouge, Louisiana event planners, August Events. “I think everyone’s more interested in their quality of life being a little bit better and slowing down to celebrate with each other....
For 22 years, one of the most beautiful homes in North Charleston, South Carolina, stood vacant—crumbling, overgrown, and nearly forgotten. Quarters A, known locally as the Admiral’s House, sits on a spacious lot on a hill at the former Naval Base Charleston. The 7,300-square-foot Neo-Classical mansion was built in 1905 for the Commandant of the Charleston Navy Yard and overlooks the quarters of lower ranking officers. The second-oldest building in the historic housing area—and by far the grandest— Quarters A once played host to large parties and events for Naval officers....
St. Anne Catholic Church in Columbus, Georgia, is one of countless churches no longer holding in-person services in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Pastor Robert Schlageter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the first service he conducted without any of the church’s 1,500 members was heartbreaking. “It was so disconcerting because I never thought we’d get to the day when we’d be praying the Mass without our people,” he recalled....
While we feel like finding a great Christmas gift for our grandmother is about as hard as it gets, it’s safe to say that it’s not quite the same as finding a Christmas gift for your grandmother(-in-law) who also happens to be Queen Elizabeth II of England. Just as we often find ourselves lamenting “What do you get someone who has everything?!,” we cannot imagine purchasing something the longest ruling monarch of all time doesn’t already have....
We don’t care how many we’ve seen, nothing puts us in the holiday spirit quite like a Hallmark movie on a cold winter’s night. Catch us with a cup of cocoa in hand, a bowl of popcorn for munching, and fire blazing in the background as soon as late October rolls around and Hallmark begins its Countdown to Christmas. But when daydreaming about the festive twinkle-lit streets and gorgeous country landscapes isn’t enough, there’s something else you can do to scratch that holly jolly Hallmark itch....
We’ve officially made it to November, and that means we have at least one thing to look forward to this year: Black Friday sales. And luckily, we don’t even have to wait until the day after Thanksgiving to score major discounts on big-ticket items. All month long, Walmart is releasing deals on everything from kitchen appliances to electronics to home goods to toys. Even better? The retailer just dropped its first set of early Black Friday deals—and trust us, you don’t want to miss them....
For the Littlest Learners Practice their ABCs and 1-2-3s. Pre-K Wipe-Clean Workbook: Scholastic Early Learners School Zone - Preschool Scholar Workbook for Ages 3-5 Brain Quest Workbook: Pre-K 100 Write-and-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages Trace Letters: Alphabet Handwriting Practice workbook for kids – Ages 3-5 For the Kindergarten Set Channel their endless energy into educational activities. Learn to Read: A Magical Sight Words and Phonics Activity Workbook for Beginning Readers...
While the exact definition of a dive bar differs from one Southerner to another, a true dive has a few distinguishable characteristics: Its cleanliness is questionable (this may be the case for the clientele too), the drinks are cheap (there’s not a craft cocktail or fancy IPA in sight), and more than anything, it’s a no-frills establishment that’s become a true neighborhood fixture. If your bucket list includes hitting up as many dive bars as you can, we suggest kicking off your drinking journey in the good ol’ state of Florida since they have more dives than you can count....
New houses are being built to seem like they’ve been there forever but with some modern twists. “We have people who call every week requesting white siding or white-painted brick with a steel front door and a few earthy accents to keep it warm,” says Benjamin Lavine of Stone Acorn Builders in Houston, a Southern Living Custom Builder member. Today’s most in-demand details include board-and-batten cladding, shingles, steel windows and doors (or wooden ones painted in deep Charleston green, warm dark gray, or charcoal black), standing-seam metal roofing, painted and heavily mortared brick, and gas lanterns....
Despite the riches of rolling hills and mountaintops that dot the South, camping isn’t for everyone. Some say it’s the bugs, others the sleeping conditions, and let’s face it–triple-digit summer temps don’t help either. Even if cooler weather sways some to venture into the attic for their sleeping bags come fall, most leery campers stop in their tracks at the thought of a weekend without plumbing. Enter “glamping,” a more comfortable take on the outdoors....
Our first look at Reba McEntire as “firecracker” traveling Judge Kim Wheeler is here! McEntire stars alongside boyfriend Rex Lin in the forthcoming Lifetime movie The Hammer, inspired by the true story of Wheeler, a tough-as-nails lawyer who is appointed Judge of the 5th District of Nevada after her predecessor dies under suspicious circumstances. The country legend, who also serves as executive on the project, shared a trailer for the television movie on social media yesterday....
Look, this $20 kitchen gadget isn’t going to change your life. But it may very well relieve you of a common pain point in the kitchen: Jabbing into rock-hard butter or not-so-soft peanut butter or cream cheese that you grab out of the fridge to spread onto a piece of toast, English muffin, or bagel. You know the drill of chipping away at butter and vainly attempting to spread it evenly over your patient but rapidly cooling slice of multigrain toast, only to watch sad slabs sit on the surface, and eventually pool where you placed them....
There are different levels to each talent we possess. You can paint beautiful watercolors but never attempt a portrait in oil. Or you can sew stunning wedding dresses but never stitch a quilt. In my case, I could bake cakes, cookies, casseroles, and more, but I couldn’t master the pecan praline, a stumbling block that kept me from believing that I was a “True Southern Cook.” I recently set out to remedy that situation and, like a dog with a bone, did not give up until I had produced a batch of creamy and delicious Buttermilk-Pecan Pralines....
I never thought I would be enthusiastically writing about a foot moisturizer, but here we are. To give you a bit of a disclaimer, my feet are in pretty good shape. I’m not one to walk around the house barefoot—I just don’t like the feeling. The benefit of my aversion to bare feet means cracked heels are pretty easy to remedy, and an infrequent occurrence. Maybe it’s my lack of foot issues, but I have never found myself excited about foot care until the first time I scrubbed on Arm & Hammer Heels & Feet Moisturizer ($8....
