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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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:34)Columns
“Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:34) In the Screwtape Letters, Screwtape counsels his young, demonic...
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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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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:32-33)Columns
“For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew...
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‘To Dip or Not to Dip?’ The Answer is Pretty ObviousColumns
I got a little feedback – make that pushback – from last week’s suggestion to make your own chicken and beef broth. I’m not sure I adequately explained how easy it is to simply let pour everything in a stockpot...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 6:28-30)Columns
“And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so...
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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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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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