Georgia on My Mind and My Hips

Still recovering from 12 days in Georgia, I’ve spent a lot of extra time on the elliptical machine at our health club – attempting to rid my arteries and my hips of those heapin’ portions of fried okra, fried green tomatoes and fried everything else that makes southern cooking so good.

   In addition to exercising Georgia off my body, Georgia has been on my mind.  I’ve created a story for Log Home Living’s Great Places column.  I’ll let you know about that when it appears in print.

   And I’ve sent lots of ideas to editors.  There’s a pretty good brewery called Terrapin in Athens.  That needs some ink.  There’s also a fabulous pottery community in Watkinsville.  I like writing about that stuff.   Bruce and I have a bit of a pottery collection from our travels.

    But it will be months, maybe a year from now before those stories appear in print.

   That’s why I’m getting addicted to some of these on-line sites.  I like the immediate visualization, the feedback, etc.

   So after last week’s post about Ramblin’ Man/Lambdin Man and the Allman Brothers, I spent a few more minutes putting together more words about Macon and the Allman Brothers.  Really, it’s more of a story about a restaurant called H&H and a scrappy woman called Mama Louise

Mama Louise still cooks with lard.

who has contributed to my need to be on an elliptical machine for the rest of my life.

 It’s posted on the site, Suite101.com, and get this… my editor flagged it as an Editor’s Choice for the week or month or something.  Click here to see it.

   I don’t know what that means, but it seems like a good thing to me, and we all need a little pat on the back, a little encouragement in our work and daily lives.

  My friends Amy and Mary visited Mama Louise with me, all three of us sitting on the floor to interview the woman.  And they too have written stories about the experience.  It’s always fun to see how three good friends with lots of good experiences in common can walk away with three totally different stories.

  So here’s a link to Amy’s story.  http://tinyurl.com/co3gy6

And here’s a link to Mary’s.   http://tinyurl.com/dbtfkd

  They deserve a pat on the back for their good efforts.  They’re good people and good writers.  But if you like my story BEST (which you should since it’s my blog), it’s not because Georgia is not on Amy and Mary’s minds.  I just have more of Georgia on my hips.