There’s more than one way to skin a cat

I keep a list. Written in pen on paper. Plus, I have a spreadsheet. Once I started collecting the Southern sayings, I couldn’t stop! My little list that started out with a couple of phrases scribbled on a piece of scratch paper has since grown to more than 500 colloquialisms, and I’m trying to figure … Continue reading There’s more than one way to skin a cat

Nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs

A cat will suck the very breath out of a baby and kill it. No, wait. If a cat jumps over a grave, the occupant will rise again, vampire-like. Or is it that a cat will steal your soul? Whatever it is, Southerners have traditionally been deeply suspicious of cats. Mawmaw Atkins refused to even … Continue reading Nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs