When life hands you lemons make sweet tea
Here in the south (SWFL to be exact) we have long had a secret for well being that is just now starting to leak out across the rest of the globe. With health conscious companies marketing homeopathic-this and all-natural-that all promising to improve your health and give you a sense of well-being we southerners have had the cure for hundreds of years. Are you having one of "those" days? You know the kind of day. It feels like you are slogging through jello. You are just in a funk with no creative energy or forward inertia. Stuff happens and it is happening to you. The southern elixir that puts a drawl in your speech and pep in your step is Sweet Tea or just tea as we call it. The sugar is just a given. Case in point - my niece Pookie. After a crappy day at work facing all the drama that a typical 25 yo woman has to face in an 8 hour time span she heads for some solace at my house where the washer and dryer are free and the sympathy regarding life challenges is eve