As an American Southerner, I can testify to the things considered delicacies to a Southerner. Southerners like their chicken fried, sweet tea, and many a’ Southern love tomato’s. Colloquially, these are “maters’.” Many people grow tomatoes because their is the timeless belief that they are better when you grow them yourself. Saying this, every Southern […]
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ~ Romans 6:1-2 There is a large variety of cultural differences in America that depend on your location. If you live in Florida, you could expect conversations
The older you get, the more you appreciate things learned early in life. For example, when I was younger, I was studious, but could never see how things applied to me. Older folk always said, “Slow down, enjoy life, it gets faster as you get older.” I had no idea until someone hit the VCR
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I am from the South. We talk slow, we walk slow, and we live slow. That’s just the pace of life. As I reflect on Southern United States culture, I find it baffling how much a simple latitude change can affect our pace of life. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit New York City
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Constantinople. It is now known as Istanbul, Turkey, but in its ancient days, it held a lot of political weight in the known world. The city acted as a form of continental gateway as it sat as the geographical crux of Europe and Asia. Its fall was to the infamous Ottoman Empire, but make no