• Road Trips,  Things We Love,  Travel

    Family Style Feast in Pigeon Forge, TN

    Not only are your taste buds in for a treat, but so is your nose; because the first thing that takes over at Paula Dean’s Family Kitchen is the smell of the most delicious fried chicken your senses will ever experience! I have loved the Queen of Southern Cooking for about as long as I can remember. Her Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake was my take along recipe of choice for my Thanksgiving contribution. I mean, how can anything with pumpkin, cream cheese, and 2 sticks of butter be bad, am I right? It is just as sweet and down home as her personality, and the love she puts into her…

  • Things We Love,  Tips & Tricks

    Help others, simply by cleaning out your closet

    When I was growing up, we had “summer clothes” and “winter clothes.” One set would be in your bureau and closet, and the other would be in the suitcases under the basement stairs. You know the ones, the heavy Samsonites with the plastic handles and flip up latches that popped when you slid the button. They somehow always managed to get pushed to the back and it was an all day event to move the Christmas decorations and old toys that “might be worth something one day” just to try to get a t-shirt because it was a random 80 degrees in April. Now Tony on the other hand, he…