All About the Southern Girl

I adore the magazine Southern Living. I am charmed by the gardens, decorator colors and recipes. Southern life is about gentility and hospitality. In fact, in the May 2012 issue, I found a list of rules to live by, if you are Southern. I will list three below that will serve the Southerner inside all of us.

A REAL SOUTHERN GIRL SHOULD OWN AN ICED-TEA PITCHER AND A DEVILED-EGG PLATE.

GOOD MANNERS WILL OFTEN TAKE YOU WHERE NEITHER MONEY NOR EDUCATION CAN.

IT’S NEVER TOO SOON TO WRITE A THANK YOU NOTE.

 

Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Writer

I hesitate to publish this. It is brilliant stuff in its elegant simplicity. Since my own stories are getting published this month, I fear Vonnegut’s rules will beat my work into dust particles and then sweep the residue under the bed. Yikes.

Nevertheless, watch this brief video. Write the rules down. Create with them in mind.