Karen on September 23rd, 2010

One of my favorite books of the year has been The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  When I posted my thoughts on the civil rights era story back in March, I had fun imagining it as a movie.  I even plotted out a cast.
Have you heard the news?  The Help will, indeed, become a movie!  DreamWorks [...]

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Karen on June 7th, 2010

The Mississippi Gulf Coast is home to the longest man-made sand beach in the world. So far our beach remains untainted by the BP oil spill, but the future is uncertain.  A WLOX news report about the 26 Mile Prayer Chain is posted on You Tube.  It’s a positive piece, filled with the hopes and [...]

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Karen on June 2nd, 2010

In a recent article about the misadventures of our family dogs, Dallas and Daisy, I described the problem we were having keeping them from digging under the fence.  I happily reported that we cured their great escapes by running an electric wire along the bottom of the fence.  “Worked like a charm” are the words [...]

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Karen on April 24th, 2010

There’s a reason why Mississippians are the heaviest Americans.  Great food is tempting us everywhere we go–we jus cain’t hep it.
I was recently asked to write about the “Best Meal I Ever Ate.”  Click here to read about it in Accent South Mississippi.  Four other South Mississippians weigh in on their favorite meals, too.

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Karen on March 6th, 2010

“Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960.  A church baby we like to call it.  Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning.  I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.  I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop [...]

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