by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By MIKE TRAYLOR Did the title grab you? I am not writing about the movie with this title but about an attraction that is fatal. This attraction is so fatal that it will cost you your life. What is this attraction? Well, it is the attraction of Jesus. The attraction of...
by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, The Way I See It
By MARTIN E. WILLOUGHBY, JR. Over 2500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus noted, “Change is the only constant in life.” In our twenty-first century world this certainly rings true. In addition to the incredible advances of technology, we simply live longer...
by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Food for Thought, Lifestyle
By LYDIA BOLEN I love summer! This is the time of year my refrigerator is full of produce choices. My husband and I enjoy venturing out to our favorite local farmer’s markets. We love to see what Mississippi growers have in store for us that week. It is pure bliss!...
by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By MARILYN TINNIN Nancy Luke Carpenter is the gregarious Superwoman who heads up the Columbus, Mississippi, Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. This is possibly the last stop in a very long career of ambassadorial type positions in a number of institutions across the...
by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien And you will know the truth, and the truth will...
by mcl | Jun 2, 2015 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
By George Stewart September 16, 2010 was one of the happiest days of my life. It was the day that my son Landon was born. Before Landon, my wife and I lost three children, each just a few weeks into my wife’s pregnancies. Doctors said that if Landon could make it to...