Shellie Tomlinson is working on a book about the advice Southern mothers gave their children.

Click on the link and see if you'd like to contribute.

I offered a couple of things, neither of them funny:

More by example than advice, she taught us that you needn't feel particularly poor if you keep your home and body clean and if you cook food from scratch using inexpensive products.

And she was quite strict about me respecting and caring for my in-laws.

I didn't include that she forbade me to eat veal, because of the way it's raised. I rarely do.