Southern Charm, Southern Gossip

Here's what's common in the South ~ grandma's rocking chair on the

porch, sweet tea, slow cooked ribs, green beans with bacon and onion,

and gossip!

Even if you are from a big, sophisticated city up North, you will soon

find yourself caught up in the colorful local tales.  In my small city, everyone

seems to know everyone else going back for generations.  This is not the 

kind of gossip that is limited to the older generation.  Twenty somethings

know who is who, and what happened to whom, and so on.  It's a tradition

that is cherished and nurtured from one generation to the next.  No one is

immune and men gossip too.

Of course it does help that there seems to be a large pool of very 

colorful, larger than life type characters.  How do they evolve I wonder?

Is it the hot sun and the steamy nights that breeds fascinating

characteristics in a person?  Does the relentless heat slow everyone

down so much that people pay much closer attention to what one

is doing, and with whom?  

While I find it all quite fascinating, I am very careful not to be too active

a participant.   I'm currently just sitting back and enjoying the drama.

Big Texas Hugs,

Susan and Bentley