Tag: bitter southerner

  • Zelda’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

    Zelda’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

    According to the author Gary Chapman, there are five love languages. Some people offer words of affirmation or acts of service to show they care; others prefer quality time or physical touch. And then, there are the gifters. I’ve never taken Chapman’s quiz, but I have a feeling I fall into category five. I love…

  • Zelda’s 2018 Summer Reading List

    Zelda’s 2018 Summer Reading List

    It’s technically spring here in Brooklyn, but the mercury has been yo-yoing so much lately we’re not entirely sure what season it actually is. We’ve ricocheted from the cold and the damp to the sweltering and the sunny again and again, but the one thing we seem to have skipped is spring itself. While I’m…

  • Zelda’s Favorites: 0% Political Reading from Around the Internet

    Zelda’s Favorites: 0% Political Reading from Around the Internet

    Many moons ago (ok, not that many), we used to close out our months here on Z&S with a round-up of our favorite things. This included music and movies, things we were eating or drinking or listening to. And it included things we’d read — sometimes books, but mostly articles from around the internet that…

  • Zelda’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

    Zelda’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

    It’s that time of year again, y’all! The gifting season is upon us, a time of secret santas and white elephants and wrapping paper galore. I love to gift: Nothing gives me quite the same thrill as finding the perfect present for a particular person, the perfect blend of thoughtful and fun and unique all…

  • Just Folks: Andi Morrow

    Just Folks: Andi Morrow

    Guess who’s back (back back), back again? That’s right, it’s“Just Folks,” our series in which we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. This week we have Andi Morrow. An actress, writer, and filmmaker from Huntsville, TN,…

  • February Round Up

    February Round Up

    Oh February: month of chocolate, teddy bears, and glaring at PDA on the subway. While this month wasn’t particularly busy or exciting for either of us — just lots of work, more work, and then work again — it seemed to fly by. Maybe it’s because February is shorter than all the other months, bless…

  • January Round Up

    January Round Up

    We can’t quite believe that January has come and gone already, making us 1/12th of the way through 2015. This has been a month of resolutions and retrospection, of tea and Netflix and hibernation. The first real snow has fallen, the temperatures have dropped, and we’re rocking the fleece-lined leggings like nobody’s business. We both…

  • These Are a Few of Our Favorite Folks!

    These Are a Few of Our Favorite Folks!

    Nobody exists in a vacuum, least of all people who call these crazy internets home. As bloggers, we’re constantly being inspired by the brilliance around us, especially the nuggets of beautiful wisdom that float up to our Brooklyn laptops from below the Mason-Dixon line. So today we thought we’d share with you a few of…

  • Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South

    Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South

    It’s December, and while holiday decorations exploded all over every retail establishment somewhere around Halloween, now is when the pressure really sets in. ‘Tis the season of gifting, of wish lists and dwindling bank accounts. Everyone takes to this process differently. Zelda is a compulsive gifter: Nothing makes her happier than browsing the boutiques (or,…