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Last week as I read our local Sunday newspaper, I was in awe over the many day camps and summer enrichment activities being offered in our small town this year. You name it, it was probably there in all of the many inticing ads. Baseball camp…swimming lessons….tutoring lessons…art lessons. I’m really excited to get E.B. [...]
Did you know that May is National Bike Month? Schwinn is celebrating with their Bike It Forward campaign during the month of May by offering you and a friend the chance to win a new bike daily through May 31, 2011. Enter to win a bike for a friend and if you win, Schwinn will return the [...]
Naturally, when you live 20 miles east of the Mississippi River bank, your thoughts can become almost consumed with wondering if the levee protecting you from this mighty force of water is going to hold. Are we really safe? Are the river gauges really giving accurate readings of how high the water is? When will [...]
I’ve been a long-time listener to Dave Ramsey ,probably the most trusted source of everything financial I have ever run across in my many quests for learning how to budget. I think at some point in our adult lives we’ve all come to realize we probably don’t manage our finances as well as we should. [...]
I haven’t been on a ferris wheel in almost 12 years, and really don’t plan to ever again, but I almost had a moment of weakness and gave in a couple of weekends ago when E.B. begged to get on. I mean, look at the beautiful colors. The blue sky with cotton candy clouds as [...]
In my lifetime I never imagined I would see the level of devestation and hate that was carried out on U.S. soil on September 11, 2001. It changed my views on how vulnerable we really are as a nation and introduced words into my vocabulary I never thought I’d use on a daily basis. Tonight, [...]
While the general public who could have cared less is probably glad the hoopla surrounding the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is finally winding down, I still can’t get enough of the spectacular display of pomp and circumstance that made the ceremony absolutely beautiful. I’ve watched it twice on television, when it [...]
It’s been a scary few days in the Mississippi Delta. We’ve fared much, much better than our neighbors in Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi and the Memphis area, but it has been really alarming hearing the tornado sirens go off in our town a few times. I’m ashamed to say we completely slept through one siren the [...]
You know your kid is growing up when he proclaims all of the kiddie rides at the fair as “lame” and prefers to do this instead.
