Browsing: Living

June is blueberry season. Memorial Day signals the start of the harvest time. In some years, the berries ripen sooner. However, you can bet they won’t last longer than a month.

Mississippi summers will always be accompanied with heat nearly as hot as fire itself, and this is no exaggeration. Walking hand-in-hand with the heat is its best friend called humidity, making the air muggy and almost viscous enough to reach up into the atmosphere and grab. Year after year, each summer in Mississippi seems to surpass its previous heat index. With many of our citizens working outside or spending more time in the sun, finding ways to beat the heat (and not letting it beat us) is top priority. Here are five tips that’ll help you stay safe while being in the heat this summer. 

I think I am officially a little old lady. 

If I was not certain of my elderly status before, my recent backyard birding adventures have sealed the deal and specifically marked me as a little old, crazy bird lady.

You don’t have to leave the Magnolia State to enjoy a summer vacation! Here are a few suggestions of top travel destinations in Mississippi for all to enjoy. 

Step into a unique slice of American history, nestled in the heart of Northeast Mississippi: the state’s oldest and only operational drive-in theatre. With a population of around 3,000, Iuka proudly hosts a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, drawing in movie enthusiasts who yearn for a distinctive way to savor their favorite films.

Pascagoulans everywhere, it is time to celebrate. A wrong has been righted. Our long national nightmare is over. Joy has returned to Mudville. The Orange Slush is returning to Edd’s.

Memorial Day is a time to remember those men and women who have given their all to defend the freedoms…

Memorial Day is an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the US military.

What’s a summer like in Mississippi? What happens in the Magnolia State that lets you know that summer is officially here? Summer is swiftly approaching, there are so many elements, some nostalgic and some current, that remind me that summers in Mississippi are something special. 

A three-day weekend is on the horizon, and while we anticipate a welcomed day off work, let’s not forget to recognize the meaning behind Memorial Day.

One spring day in 2020, I found a small, almost empty bottle of hand-sanitizer in a bathroom drawer and jumped for joy even though it had expired five years beforehand. I’d won the lottery and was holding a golden egg. That year, because of Covid-19, hand-sanitizer became “scarcer than hen’s teeth.”

Everyone has a mother. This weekend moms will be celebrated, and those who have passed on will be remembered.

A few years ago, Scott Hunter sent me a photograph of him and a young girl during their youth dressed in their finest for Lucedale’s May Day Celebration.

“Every tree has a story. It doesn’t have to end at the landfill.”

That’s the heartfelt mantra of Superior Artisan Wood and its owners, Chad Fletcher and Allen Murphree.

Superior Artisan Wood takes pride in rebirthing timber into beautiful slabs of wood to use in various ways.

It’s that time of year again – time for the Tupelo Blue Suede Cruise.

The love of literature, food, and fellowship is the foundation of the Page & Table supper club that happens every few months at Reed’s GumTree Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi. The group is a partnership between Lauren McElwain, founder of the nonprofit Cooking as a First Language, and Lori Jones, manager of Reed’s GumTree Bookstore. Meeting each quarter, the group provides a way to establish a sense of community with other readers and foodies.