Category: Southern Thing Columns

This is where I share excerpts and links to my weekly humor column that appears on It’s a Southern Thing. (For those who are curious, I share the excerpt not because it tickles me to redirect you to the full column but because the column is the property of SouthernThing.com but I share part of it here so readers who follow the blog will know it has been posted.)

Southern Thing Columns

Someone told me saying ‘y’all’ makes me sound uneducated, y’all

Kelly Kazek

Following is an excerpt from this week’s column on AL.com. The link at the bottom takes you to the full column. I do that because AL.com owns the rights to this column and I can’t blog it in its entirety. I admit it – I’m a y’all-aholic. I like to say it. I like to… Continue reading Someone told me saying ‘y’all’ makes me sound uneducated, y’all

Column, Southern Thing Columns

If eyebrows were meant to be artworks, they wouldn’t be made of hair

Kelly Kazek

Following is an excerpt from this week’s column on AL.com. The link at the bottom takes you to the full column. I do that because I hope you will enjoy it but AL.com owns the rights to this column so I can’t blog it in its entirety. Omigosh, y’all. Can we please, for the love… Continue reading If eyebrows were meant to be artworks, they wouldn’t be made of hair

Southern Thing Columns

Indian doctor has your health drink substitute: cow urine

Kelly Kazek

Following is an excerpt from this week’s column on AL.com. The link at the bottom takes you to the full column. If India, as a country, had a middle and last name, I’d call it by all three because it needs a talkin’ to. You know, like a “Billy Dwayne India, you get in here… Continue reading Indian doctor has your health drink substitute: cow urine

Southern Thing Columns

These Olympians are nuts. Where are their mothers?

Kelly Kazek

Following is an excerpt from this week’s column on AL.com. The link at the bottom takes you to the full column. The older I get, the harder it is to watch the Olympics. And I absolutely love the Olympics. The athletes’ feel-good stories give us hope for a humanity that the internet has totally ruined… Continue reading These Olympians are nuts. Where are their mothers?

Southern Thing Columns

Some columns just write themselves

Kelly Kazek

The following is an excerpt from my book "Fairly Odd Mother: Musings of a Slightly Off Southern Mom." Anyone who reads this column knows my policy is, “I don’t judge.” It just wouldn’t be Southern. Sure, people sometimes read something into the tone of a column but I say, without judgment, “That’s their problem.” So when I… Continue reading Some columns just write themselves