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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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Felder’s DIG’rColumns
Hard core gardeners often color outside the lines, don’t always fit in neatly. It may help with neighborly relations to literally spell out what we are attempting, make intentions more obvious. I was reminded of this...
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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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Don’t knock ‘Cruisin’ the Coast’ and TikTok Recipes Until You’ve Tried ‘EmColumns
“Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.” Last week, this somewhat-flippant saying came to mind on a couple of occasions. A trip to the Gulf Coast’s mammoth eight-day event, “Cruisin’ the Coast,” and the...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:27)Columns
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” (Matthew 6:27) As I have often said, “The heart is the principle part of religion.” Throughout the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus peels...
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Mississippi’s Blessed with Great Italian Restaurants, Including Hatteisbrg’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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:26)Columns
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matthew 6:26) Jesus operates with a different...
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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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:25)Columns
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” (Matthew...
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Felder’s Weird PlantsColumns
Hard core gardeners often color outside the lines, don’t always fit in neatly. It may help with neighborly relations to literally spell out what we are attempting, make intentions more obvious. I was reminded of this...
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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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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine...
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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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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
The block of Canton Street that has been closed has since been re-opened. It had been closed for several weeks. Short Cakes at 228 North Utica Street has opened in the old undertaker’s shop (later the home of Mavis...
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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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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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Utica Area NewsColumns News
I found no Utica Area obituaries or earthshaking Utica News this past week, so I thought I would pass on some other tales from MSU, preceding it with the following obituary. Frank Young Rogers, Sr., a resident of...
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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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:9-12b)Columns Editorial
“Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have...
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Pages from the Gazette’s Past: 1903Columns
Hinds County Gazette -- 1903 Rev. Howard L. Patterson will return from the north and will fill his appointment at Raymond on the 4th Sunday of this month. Miss Annie North, who has been a home for the past three weeks,...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns News
The Terry Board of Alders met last Tuesday for its regular August meeting. There was discussion of the town’s Christmas parade in this upcoming December. The date for this parade is currently being planned for...
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