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What’s Up Magnolia? Friday SalonColumns Headline
Friday a gathering, that usually takes place at the house of Sally Johnson, met at the home of Sandy Pearson. Sandy resides at Camp Topisaw on the estate of David and Edie Varnado. The evening’s festivities began with...
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You CAN Prepare an Entire Thanksgiving Dinner & Live to Tell the TaleColumns
“Getting a turkey, dressing and desserts on the Thanksgiving table is not that hard to do. But some people do get scared, especially when they’re cooking for a crowd and want everything to go perfectly.” Those...
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Armchair Ponderings More ThankfulnessColumns Editorial
Today, Sunday, is a bit early to pen this Thanksgiving column, it has to go to press early so that all involved can celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. I want to express my thankfulness for yesterday and to...
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Felder’s Fence TipsColumns
My son just committed actual crape murder, but we found a happy outcome by recycling the carcass into a funky fence for Felder. His huge tree, way too large to wrap my arms around, was heavily infested with bark scale,...
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Armchair Ponderings Daylight savings or midterms?Columns Editorial
This Sunday will mark the end of Daylight-saving Time, falling back to Standard Time; with next Tuesday ushering in the much-touted midterm elections throughout the country. All of the hullabaloo about who is going to...
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Felder’s Digging ForkColumns
Digging in the dirt for me has deep mental and philosophical connotations. As we physically turn it over we wipe clean a once-burgeoning cornucopia of shapes, color, flavors, fragrances, and butterflies, into a bare...
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Making Your Own Broth is Not as Weird as it SoundsColumns
The following 2 sentences by Andrew Zimmern, acclaimed TV chef and creator of many other culinary-related endeavors caused me to backtrack and reread it: “I don’t think there is a more soul satisfying meal than...
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Felder’s Winter Salad GreensColumns
I’m doing something fun, surprisingly easy, colorful, and nutritious for winter that I would have never dreamt of while growing up: sprouting beautiful salads. In pots. As a kid, the closest I came to eating green...
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Do all questions have answers?Columns
The question of the day! Will today’s government pay off a portion of 43 million college loans to insure a vote for the blue party? The average, college loan debt balance came out at $37,667. Surprisingly only 2% or...
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Armchair Ponderings My day that has lived in infamy, October 13, 1942Columns
Eighty years ago, October 13, 1942 the German Gestapo and French security police, the Milice Francaise, broke the door to enter our apartment in Paris, France while I was hidden in an all-girl school as a just turned...
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Felder’s Insect VisitorColumns
Had a conniption fit in the front yard last week, hopping around, arms flailing, and making strangling noises. Now, I’m not bothered in the least by garden snakes, lizards, tomato hornworm, praying mantids,...
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Mississippi’s Blessed with Great Italian Restaurants, Including Hattiesburg’s Mario’sColumns
Mississippi is famous world-wide for Southern comfort food – fried chicken, homemade biscuits, vegetables and sky-high meringue pies and banana pudding are just a few of the delicacies tourists list as some of their...
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The Queen’s Long Goodbye Spawned a Long-Lost Pancake RecipeColumns Editorial
PANCAKES--- If you make Queen Elizabeth’s dropped scones, or pancakes, recipe, remember that a “teacup,” equals approximately ¾ cup. You’ll need 3 cups of flour and 1-1/2 cups of milk. I get it; this is a food...
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Armchair Ponderings A vision and hard workColumns Editorial
We look at the evening news and at the daily newspapers, they are rife with negatives. As a perennial optimist I write this tonight, even though my well has gone almost dry with despair; for our youths, for our seniors...
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Progress NewsColumns News
The Fall weather is so nice and I wish we could get out in it. Maybe soon, neither of us can drive right now. Losing your independence is not a good thing. We thank God for our children every day because they are always...
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America’s great expectationsColumns Editorial
Years ago I asked my students to take out a piece of paper and make a list of everything that the government was supposed to provide for us. I asked them not to write their names on the paper, but just make a list. This...
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Armchair Ponderings Is T-Ball to blame for this crime wave?Columns Editorial
Last week’s telephone conversation with a respected friend, who now lives in Arkansas, covered a number of topics. The prevalent subject was the inordinate rise in crime among the 15 to 30 years old demographic....
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Calling Plants by the Wrong NameColumns Editorial
Gardeners dig in their heels quickly over cherished ideas, and quickly devolve into unending arguments over trivia. Call me a flip-flopper but not a know-it-all; nearly forty years ago I resolved, in a journal note, to...
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Terry's Creek NewsColumns News
Ordinance of Baptism was held at the beginning of our morning service for Rose Roberts last Sunday. Then the Praise Team led in songs of Praise. Special music was by the choir “Redemption Draweth Nigh”. Bro. LaVerne...
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Progress NewsColumns News
Mason Steele was baptized in the Bogue Chitto River this Sunday at 6:00 pm. A very dear family friend, Billy Morgan, baptized him. It was last minute planning in order to have his dad, Stoney, and Billy home at the same...
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Terry's Creek NewsColumns News
Morning worship service opened with baptism service. Those who made a profession of faith and were baptized were Glenn and Elisa Wade, and Corey Roberts. Also we welcome Pamela Wade and Riley Crews by letter. So...
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The “get Trump” vendettaColumns Editorial Political
The constant get Trump committee led by Mississippi Congress-man Benny Thompson and Republican Vice Chair and lead attack person; Liz Cheney R-Wyoming undoubtedly stems from two possibilities. A vendetta by now Attorney...
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Progress NewsColumns News
It was a wonderful day at Progress Baptist Church today with Joe Young and Ramona along with three of their granddaughters. Joe sang some beautiful songs after reading scripture or telling the history of who wrote them...
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Changing Up My ‘Favorites’ List, One Region at a TimeColumns
Last-blast-before-school trips and other reasons to hit the road in search of fun and sun caused readers to reach out asking for my favorite dishes around the state. Looking back, I realized the same places and their...
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