When friends called to invite me and my husband to join them at their beach house at Grayton Beach, Florida, I didn't have to think about it. I was packing before I ended the phone call. Two other cou..

I’ve decided that late afternoons on these long summer days are perfect for inviting the neighbors over for a cocktail hour now and then. Mama and Papa often had these impromptu get-togethers years ag..

During the summers of my childhood, the highlight of many hot afternoons was sipping homemade lemonade, root beer or tea. What fun we had under the oak trees at Aunt Belle’s slurping the beverages chi..

A few years ago, a journalist asked me to list a few things I like about summertime in the South. I confess that the summer is my favorite season and I can never get enough of ice cold watermelon, sno..

Summer is for seafood as far as I'm concerned. And what makes it better is catching it yourself. I've made several trips to Marsh Island, where Vermilion Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico, in the past few ..