Happy New Year’s from The War Song Series! Have you eaten your collards and black-eyed peas yet? Wishing you a blessed and prosperous year.

“Peas for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold,” Grandpa

Chester muttered, and Edwin laughed. He hadn’t grown up hearing her grandpa

say the same thing every New Year’s Day the way she and Carson had.

Song of Return, Chapter 39