by mcl | May 1, 2018 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By Marilyn Tinnin Ann Brand Colbert Unshakeable Faith When Ann Colbert’s only daughter was killed in a horrific automobile accident at the tender age of 25, who could have blamed her if she had let that grief completely swallow her whole? It has been 31...
by mcl | Jan 3, 2018 | Columns, Inspiration, The Doctor Is In, This Is My Story
By Marilyn Tinnin When Skin Color Didn’t Matter— The Callaway Chargers Football Champs of 1975 With the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in December, so many stories of racial injustice have been enshrined for posterity. Here is another true story...
by mcl | Dec 4, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By Kim Kirkland Allen Laying It All Down Dreams are funny things. Sometimes, they seem to be tangible, real, and reachable—sometimes, completely elusive. When we are young, we dream big. We believe that nothing is impossible. Then we grow up and...
by mcl | Nov 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By Sherry Lucas Kathy Thibodeaux’s Timeless Legacy Swimming was Kathy Thibodeaux’s love, growing up—slicing through the water with second-nature athleticism and grace. Those qualities defined her dancing, too—gliding across the stage and flying...
by mcl | Oct 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By MARILYN TINNIN JSU’s Jordan Jefferson Jordan Jefferson is the 2016 valedictorian of Callaway High School and is now a sophomore at Jackson State University on a full academic scholarship. “Well rounded” does not begin to describe this young man...
by mcl | Sep 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, This Is My Story
By MARILYN TINNIN Happy 100th Birthday to a Beautiful Lady! Mrs. Frances Reynolds of Sunnybrook Estates in Madison has lived through one hundred years of significant American history—literally. Born near the end of World War I, she has witnessed...
