"Bless your heart, darlin'!" Elinda Lou was so sweet when I told her of my ailment. Since we live in a fast-growing area of Alabama, it doesn't surprise us anymore when we need to explain ourselves to ...

There is a phrase that a woman can deploy like a verbal stiletto. It’s increasingly dangerous to use, because many people are catching on to the phrase’s true meaning. You’ve got a decent shot at ...

The brand new album, Bless My Heart, will be released next Friday, May 29 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

Bless your little old heart if you think complaining about the loud trucks is whining! It is a real problem. I don’t see how the high level of noise couldn’t bother someone. It jangles my nerves every ...

Bless my heart, I’m old enough to have dialed a rotary phone while listening to an eight-track, while standing next to a black and white television with aluminum foil crimped around the rabbit ears ...

There are a few phrases that define the South. “Come on in.” “Y’all hungry?” “What church you go to?” But none carry quite the same cultural weight—or confusion—as the three little words: Bless your ...