by mcl | Aug 31, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Strength is found not in busyness and noise but in quietness. For a lake to reflect the heavens on its surface, it must be calm. From Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman I am sitting on a plane 34,000 feet above the earth moving at a speed of more than 500 miles an...
by mcl | Aug 31, 2015 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By Marilyn Tinnin Win-some: adjective attractive or charming in an open and delightful way. Yes. That is the word I was looking for. And that would be Peggie Gillom-Granderson. At six feet tall, she would be hard not to notice in a crowd. She shares that she...
by mcl | Aug 3, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 I happened to be invited to speak at a men’s breakfast in Oxford last fall. There are about 30 men of all ages, races, and backgrounds who meet at...
by mcl | Aug 3, 2015 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By MARILYN TINNIN The word, “legacy,” has become tiresome along with a few others in the dictionary of political correctness, but anyone running hard in pursuit of one could take a few lessons from Robert Khayat. The former Ole Miss Chancellor, renowned college and...
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...