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Armchair Ponderings Remembrance poppiesColumns Editorial
This week I procrastinated a bit too long for my weekly column. Then yesterday was trumped (no pun intended) by a three hour sitting in a medical lab followed by an almost two hour waiting room session in the...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Love...” (I John 4:8)Columns Editorial
“God is love.” (1 John 4:8) One of the late classics would sing, “What is love?” We ought not to assume to know the answer. Prior generations defined love as a feeling; current generations define love as...
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Armchair Ponderings The migrant conundrumColumns Editorial
Title 42 ended on May 11, 2023. Dire consequences were anticipated with the unrestricted influx of humans looking for a better life for their families. I know why people are paying exorbitant prices to be either dumped...
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Armchair Ponderings Middle of the night ponderingsColumns Editorial
Pondering #1 As I write this on Wednesday my uppermost wondering is due to my Cardiologists appointment tomorrow. Will we have scheduled a surgery date for my heart? Pondering #2 Should I rethink my belief in the Second...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God is Almighty...” (Psalm 145:3)Columns Editorial
“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable.” (Psalm 145:3) Many of us confess the Apostles’ Creed each Sunday, and the first line pulsates with both power and comfort. “I...
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No Laughing on SundayEditorial Headline
My opinion on laughter is that we need more of it. Lots more good old healthy, ‘throw back your head and hee-haw’ laughter. And I suspect that on the seventh day when God had created the world He looked around and...
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Armchair Ponderings An Uncertain FutureColumns Editorial
Eighty years ago, last month, my father pencil wrote a farewell letter to my mother. It had in it,” tomorrow we face an uncertain future.” He was loaded onto a train with 997 men, women and children to end up in...
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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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