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Armchair Ponderings Road trash is everyone’s problemColumns Editorial
This past Saturday’s Enterprise Journal opinion page, which I read on a daily basis, featured a column by Patsy R. Brumfield concerning a tremendous litter problem in McComb. I completely agree with portions of that...
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Spring Is the Best Time to Explore Mississippi’s TreasuresColumns Editorial
Spring and for some, a weeklong break from school, are on the horizon. Instead of jumping ship to other states, why not stay in Mississippi, a state filled with interesting places to explore and enjoy? Here are a few of...
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Armchair Ponderings Hospice versus chemotherapyColumns Editorial
As a disclaimer, I have no formal medical training but I have 86 years of observing life around me. I am not reporting my own opinion but that of others that either have suffered or are presently suffering for what is...
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Armchair Ponderings Public speaking, a lost art!Columns Editorial
I never cease to be amazed by the lack of preparedness of public speakers in today’s times. Starting with the president of the United States reading his speeches; whether they are written for him by a room-full of...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 7:12)Columns Editorial
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12) “The Golden Rule” - how many of us have heard this rule echoed into our ears after some...
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Christmas Gifts, the SequelColumns Editorial
Before you call me hypocritical for my next statement, yes, it’s true: I advocated buying Marie Callender’s pies for Thanksgiving if baking was not in your wheelhouse or time frame. With that disclaimer out of the...
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Armchair Ponderings The spirit of Christmas in 1882Columns Editorial
First printed as an award-winning Arm-chair Ponderings in the Magnolia Gazette on 12/16/98. There he was again peering through the shop window. The young fisherman walked home daily at dusk after a hard day’s fishing...
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Felder’s Winter Gardening GuideColumns Editorial
Lotta folks are moaning right now about the demise of their summer and fall garden. Not me. One of the things I admire most about gardeners in Great Britain is how they have moved past having just a big spring rush and...
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Armchair Ponderings A world of acronymsColumns Editorial
With so much stuff on the news ranging from the splash down of Artemis, the next Lunar mission vehicle that was so ho-hum to the press that it took a back seat to the prisoner swap of a barely known female basketball...
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Armchair Ponderings The truth can still hurtColumns Editorial
An open letter to Past President of the United States Donald J. Trump! It has been 81 years yesterday, since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, precipitating the war in the Far East. Millions of words have been...
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Armchair Ponderings It’s never too late.Columns Editorial
The Coffee Caboose Roasters, LLC has been advertising in the Magnolia Gazette for several weeks; November 14th was the “soft opening” of this important new business in Tylertown, located in the historic GM&O...
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Armchair Ponderings Downsizing; a challenge!Columns 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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Armchair Ponderings Twisted MindsColumns Editorial
Tuesday morning, election day. I got up this morning at my usual 5:00 AM fully expecting more political rhetoric from pundits on either side of the ballot. My thinking was that there was too much hope on the Republican...
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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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Do all questions have answers?Columns Editorial
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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Agriculture Still Important For Mississippi’s Economic SuccessEditorial Headline
The season’s first named hurricane, Fiona, had moved away from the continental U.S., and a dry end to September gave rise to a dateless idiom: Hope springs eternal in Farm Country for a bountiful harvest. However,...
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‘I can’t believe’ people are making butter boardsColumns Editorial
You’ve undoubtedly seen the bright yellow container in the supermarket dairy case with the name, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” After seeing countless online videos and posts on the latest charcuterie...
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Armchair Ponderings America, what a country it once was!Columns Editorial
During the 1980s there was a Ukrainian immigrant known as Yakov Smirnoff who came to this country to broaden his experience as a standup comic, his catch phrase was “America, what a country!” My mother brought me to...
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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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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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (I Kings 18:3-4)Columns Editorial
“Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.” (1 Kings 18:3-4) 194...
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Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience in Meridian Offers Multimedia ExhibitsEditorial Headline
The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience, better known as The MAX, has prospered in the role envisioned for it as the showcase shrine for the state’s many stars in the cultural arts. MAX has seen solid success...
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The Strange And Complicated Case of Hattie Lee BarnesEditorial Headline
Joe N. Pigott never believed Hattie Lee Barnes, a black woman, killed a white man for any reason other than self-defense in 1950’s Mississippi. Charles B. Gordon, my father, who covered the case from start to finish...
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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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