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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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Progress BC NewsColumns News
I am so sorry for not writing anything for the past two weeks. This will be short but I wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten. Right now Gene and I are having a lot of health problems and it is hard for me...
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Terry’s Creek NewsColumns Editorial
The Praise Team opened our morning worship service with wonderful praises to our Lord. After the welcome and announcements by Bro. LaVerne Summerlin continued our praises of music. The special music was sung by Tucker...
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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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Christmas on the Coast: It’s the Perfect Start to the Holidays!Columns
The email in my inbox sounded so appealing: “From Thanksgiving to New Years, Beau Rivage in Biloxi is transformed into a winter wonderland adorned with larger-than-life nutcrackers, colossal Christmas ornaments,...
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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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Felder’s Unwanted House GuestsColumns
This old gardener, trying to cultivate a kindhearted, live-and-let-live nature, isn’t as benevolent as Nature might prefer. Need a universal “not welcome” sign that ants, flies, spiders, roaches, lizards,...
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Felder’s Landscaping TipsColumns
Whether you go with ancient Latin’s autumnus, or prefer the American slang “fall” a common chore this reflective time of year can lead to how we approach our landscapes. As we corral plummeting foliage into compost...
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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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