Audrey McDonald Atkins

Though sometimes short in bloom, the resilient daylily is long in memory.

Some days you’re the bug, other days you’re the flip-flop.

Southern accents and technology go together like oil and water.

These two staples of February have more in common than meets the eye.

With Southern Grannies around, who needs a pharmacy anyways?

Nothing says health and prosperity like Southern-style entrails.

The more-or-less definitive guide to eating cornbread and potlikker.

Who better to discuss cheerful or grave matters with than the dearly departed?

Local author Audrey Atkins on the pleasures of a life spent beneath the scuppernong vines

Local author Audrey Atkins talks Southern superstitions and the “Dawg Days” of summer in this excerpt from her book, "They Call Me Orange Juice."