I have a dilemma that is both cute and fascinating, but has the potential to wreak havoc in my Certified Wildlife Habitat garden.
About this time six months from now, you probably will not care about most of whatever’s taking up your day today. If you do have to work that day, your heart won’t be 100 percent into it.
If, as a healthy adult, I’m in a relationship that isn’t serving me, I know I need to make some changes. For example, if I’m always giving and the other person is always taking, or if I’m constantly having to defend the relationship to others, then I should know something is wrong. Perhaps s…
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The stories of how the global coronavirus pandemic have brought out the best in people were just gathering some momentum when the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minnesota by a white police officer turned things upside down. Battling the virus briefly seemed to unite everyone against a comm…
Every four years, Olympics enthusiasts in these parts cheer for Team USA during the summer games. With every summer Olympics season, there are the Carl Lewises, Mary Lou Rettons, Michael Phelpses and Simone Bileses who shine on the world’s stage, make a name for themselves and spark a differ…
For less than a year now, the coronavirus COVID-19 has been infecting people around the world, changing the way we live and work dramatically. There is a lot that is unknown about this novel disease, but there are a few things that are certain.
The safety, health and well-being of Monroe County’s residents are always the top priority of our health care providers. The COVID-19 pandemic has made all of us reevaluate how we do any number of activities and for many patients, that has included delaying or avoiding seeing a physician.
A skewed way of thinking can take a peaceful protest and ignite it into nights upon nights’ worth of senseless destruction and violence. By the time buildings are destroyed and neighborhoods are in ruins, was that skewed way of thinking even in line with what the peaceful protest was truly about?
I simply cannot think of a better time to come together as a community and celebrate one another. That’s right, folks. It’s time for the 2020 Best of Monroe Reader’s Choice.
A lesson I’m learning through the turmoil caused by the global pandemic is not new to me but is taking on new meaning these days.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi hospitals have stepped up to build and staff temporary treatment facilities; overcome personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilator shortages; and care for the sick and dying – often at great personal sacrifice. Mississippi’s nearly 60,000 hospi…
I watched the national news the other night. I knew there was a reason why I stopped watching it a while ago and opted for The Weather Channel, leisurely internet time or mindless shows from my DVR or DVD collection instead.
Living in northeast Mississippi, there are plenty of things you’re used to seeing on a regular basis. A field full of some sort of crop during the growing season, church parking lots full of cars and stadium lights illuminating small towns on Fridays in late summer and the fall are just thre…
While those of us who call northeast Mississippi home have never felt the concept of the 100-year flood as intimately as our fellow citizens of Mississippi Delta, we are in close enough proximity to be familiar with the concept. I recall in college when there was such an event that struck th…
When this pandemic began, life was crazy for us all. So many overwhelming feelings, the scary thoughts forming from the unknown, stress from financial changes and burdens, routines being messed up, loneliness due to social distancing…the list can go on and on.
Gardening activity is being supercharged right now by three fevers working together to keep more of us close to home.
Once I had permission as a pre-teen to roam as far as I’d like on Saturdays, I went. Even though Walmart and downtown Aberdeen seemed far enough away to pack snacks, they were completely worth it once my friends and I peddled there on our mountain bikes.
It’s February, 1962. As a 14-year-old girl, I sat on the floor in front of the cast iron wood stove inside our unpainted, mostly unheated cabin in the woods near Noel, Missouri. As I put the kindling in the stove, I stirred the coals and watched the flame ignite. Looking deep within the fire…
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It’s always good to have a plan. I remember a black church elder I visited with years ago who told me, “You need to plan your work and then work your plan.”
When school let out back in March, and we knew there was a possibility that the senior class of 2020 wouldn’t get to go back, one of the first things we said here at the Monroe Journal was that this year’s graduation magazine had to be special.
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In less than two weeks, two cars built for speed have tried to outrun the Aberdeen Police Department and wound up wrecking into trees. Even though no injuries were reported in either case, both should’ve been reminders of how dangerous and destructive illegal street racing can be.
Working somewhere you grew up makes it a little easier to reconnect with old friends sometimes. In your teens, you get to hang out a lot of nights every week. In your mid-20s, it’s every once in a while through special occasions and by the time your late 30s come around, it’s more so just pa…
Pitting our limited resources against the unforeseen virulence of a global pandemic has brought a new topic of discussion to the table.
Last week Monroe County surpassed the 100 mark for people who have tested positive for coronavirus since March 16. For several days straight, the Mississippi State Department of Health has reported more cases in this county than any other northeast Mississippi county to date. Remember, too, …
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Back in late August 2001, I was mowing a yard one afternoon, rushing ahead of a thunderstorm. About the same time, there was a tan Tahoe speeding by, rushing to the hospital for my cousin to be born.
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I’ve heard it repeatedly and said it repeatedly. There was a time when the generations before me were young, and going to town on Saturdays was a big deal. We’re just as rural now as we were then but we’re far more mobile and dependent on going to town, making us quick to rush to bigger citi…
I’ve been spending more time in my yard lately. Yes, the current situation is a contributing factor, but mostly because it’s spring and so it’s yard time anyway.
Many musicians and artists know the value of telling a good story. A story idea or even a fable with a good moral are means of drawing many different people into a shared understanding about life issues. Agreement on the basics is the accelerator for moving forward as opposed to merely repea…
Last Wednesday morning, I looked down Amory Main Street knowing that’s the day I would’ve seen the Ferris wheel from a few blocks away. I would’ve gotten apple fritters the next night, sang along to “Strawberry Wine,” gotten up the next morning and learned something I didn’t know about one o…
The new universal buzz words of recent weeks include “unprecedented times,” “social distancing,” “sheltering in place” and more.
I’m glad it wasn’t just me and my friends who were mischievous when we were in junior high and high school. In college, though, when I started making friends with a group of guys from Smithville, I realized they took it to a whole other level.
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You can shock yourself learning to be an electrician and you can cut yourself learning to be a butcher. Someone teaching you skills like these can only do so much explaining of what you should do, but you’ve got to take the lead to do it yourself eventually.
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I was just talking a couple of weekends ago about watching it on ESPN. It was a Thursday night game, and Mississippi State hosted South Carolina. What made that game so special, and patriotic, was it was the first college football game after the Sept. 11 attacks.
After 25 years of kicking the butts of tobacco industry leaders, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is now leading the way to Take Down Tobacco.
I’m almost positive I wouldn’t be at the Monroe Journal had it not been for Don Rowe. Back in the summer of 2009, he told me about a part-time staff writer position for the paper I was really too busy to even think about having.
A couple of Saturdays ago, the same conversation came up twice with two different groups – the bigger number of young families that used to live in Aberdeen.
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Am I ever full of flaws? I’m running one week late to make that obvious statement widely known. About this time last week, you may have spent the day fasting and in prayer or you could’ve been somewhere else recovering from Fat Tuesday.
How did AmFed, a workers’ compensation insurance carrier, get involved in arts and education? The same way it’s gotten involved in all its community fundraising efforts – by listening to its employees and embracing its mission to support the people who share the place they call home.
I sometimes miss sleeping in until noon, not caring about a credit score and dreaming big about even bigger places. Everyone goes through a stage when the world’s opportunities seem so reachable that you can almost touch them. At the same time, though, it overlaps a stage of not really carin…
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Jesus was quoted in Matthew’s gospel as saying, “Those who give one of these little ones a cup of cold water because they are my followers will truly get their reward." (Mark 9:41 NCV)
