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By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 130 Reads
On Fri, 08/07/2020 - 01:01 PM

It is amazing what just a little touch of normalcy can do for the soul during these trying times.
Last week we vacationed in an isolated beach house on the Gulf of Mexico with well over six feet of social distancing between us and the neighbors.

Politics go national these days

By Charlie Dunagin, READ MORE > 209 Reads
On Fri, 08/07/2020 - 12:58 PM

The phrase “all politics are local” is most commonly attributed to former U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, D-Massachusetts.
It’s a catchy saying, but it isn’t necessarily so, especially in this day of instant communication through social media and out-of-state political action groups helping fund state candidates.

The beach is calling

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 394 Reads
On Thu, 07/30/2020 - 08:06 AM

Summer is the time for beach trips, camping trips, swimming pools, trips to theme parks, and all those super-crowded kinds of things that we Americans enjoy. Not this year!

Evers brothers listen to Bilbo

By Charlie Dunagin, READ MORE > 214 Reads
On Thu, 07/30/2020 - 08:04 AM

Three civil rights icons — Charles Evers, John Lewis and C.T. Vivian — all died last week, and of the three, Evers’ passing received the least national publicity.
Or, at least, that’s the way it seemed to me.

Searching for the comfort of a pair of red shoes

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 492 Reads
On Thu, 07/23/2020 - 10:16 AM

My grandmother loved the color red. She loved shoes too. Red shoes. In fact, she had a pair of red pumps that she wore all the time. She may have had her nightgown and robe on, or even one of those snap up house dresses, but she would have on those red pumps until bedtime.

Moonshine tales

By Charlie Dunagin, READ MORE > 584 Reads
On Thu, 07/23/2020 - 10:15 AM

I started hearing about Kiln moonshine whiskey by the time I was old enough to know what moonshine was.
My grandfather had worked in the sawmill industry in that part of Hancock County during the South Mississippi timber boom of the early 1900s.

Going without a mask is not a risk worth taking

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 464 Reads
On Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:06 PM

Gosh when it got hot outside, boy did it ever get hot outside. I love Mississippi, but her humidity, especially in the form it was in over the weekend and this week, is just a bit much. It’s a shame the theory that the summer heat would kill the coronavirus didn’t pan out.

It's not a hoax

By Charlie Dunagin, READ MORE > 549 Reads
On Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:04 PM

Robert Foster and Tate Reeves faced off in last year’s governor’s race, and Reeves won big.
Foster, at the time a freshman state representative from DeSoto County, ran a distant third in the Republican primary, but he did get enough votes to force a runoff between Reeves and former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller.

Another day in paradise

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 711 Reads
On Thu, 07/09/2020 - 12:25 PM

We spent the better part of the month of June preparing to put a permanent safety cover on the swimming pool at our house at the Ross Barnett Reservoir. After my daughter graduated high school and left home for college in 2011 pool maintenence became more of a chore than I was really interested in and I’m too cheap to hire it out.

Celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 749 Reads
On Thu, 07/02/2020 - 11:41 AM

March, April and May seemed longer than an entire year and then June arrived and it just flew by. This pandemic business, I do believe, has our time schedules in a state of disarray. Summer’s just begun, but it seems it’s half over already, and it is hard to believe the Fourth of July holiday is already here.

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