Discover Harold’s Country Club: A Unique Southern Dining Experience

“This place is like Cracker Barrel, but for real,” my best friend Jennifer joked as we sat down with our paper plates filled with crispy fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits, at the green and white checkered table in the eclectic dining room. Now the restaurant’s designated seating area, the open concept space was once a vintage car garage. “You know, nobody curated this — it’s just left here the way it was.” And despite a devasting fire in 1999, that’s exactly the way it seems.

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Food & Fiction – Four Books Worth the Read

I’ve always been one to excel more at the reading and writing side of school–the arithmetic, not so much. There was a time in my life though, when I never read fictional books; I considered myself more of a realist who only read books I could apply to my life. I would read biographies, self-help books and books about others’ real life experiences, but didn’t have an appreciation for the wonderment or escape of letting my imagination run wild or getting to know characters conjured up by someone I’d never met. I look back at that old self now and think, “Live a little, sister!” Continue reading “Food & Fiction – Four Books Worth the Read”