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Hi Y’all, I am writing the article on Sept. 27. This day is the Heavenly Birthday of my Mom, Gene Sewell,. For those of you who don’t know, she was the first Queen of Lanark Village. This is a very special day to me and my best friend Jane Shafer, as her Mom had the…

Are you sinking into depression or anxiety? Are you feeling guilty or ashamed because of it? Christians often share with me how much they struggle with depression and anxiety, especially because of COVID and other unsettling current events. It saddens me that they confess their depression in a whisper because they fear of being judged…

Mother didn’t actually lie to us. I don’t think. She said it was mayonnaise. We called it mayonnaise. It wasn’t all that complicated. Besides, it was white and creamy…. like you expected mayonnaise to be. And we put in on almost everything. Hamburgers. Hot Dogs. Sauerkraut and wieners. “Baloney” sandwiches. Brown beans and cornbread. Vienna…

Hi Y’all, The 20th anniversary of 9/11 was honored more privately than remembrances in the past years. It was mostly because of COVID, our enemy for the last couple of years. I am sure that we all felt remembrance, honor and pain in our own way. The American Legion had planned to have a ceremony…

Is America imploding? Is there any hope for our divided nation? Immediately following 9/11, I cringed every time I heard a plane fly overhead. Like so many others, I prayed for our nation’s survival. That frightful event’s only bright spot was that it brought our nation together – for a short while. Twenty years have…

These are troubling times, and politics are not the only blood sport. We are seeing the surging forces of a regime that forces girls to cover their faces in public, does not let kids go to school, and stifles free speech. And that is the Biden Administration. I understand that the Taliban and ISIS are…

America cowers and runs from yet another country in which we should never have had a military presence. What is it going to take for us to limit the power of Washington in all matters of importance? The chaotic images of our botched evacuation of Afghanistan should further enforce what we all should know by…

I was against the wars of choice in Afghanistan and Iraq from the outset. I said then that we no longer have theaters of war, we have suburban, mall-size, multiplexes of wars, none of which we should be in. And we never know when we are done because we have no clear objective. Yet again,…

I don’t think Congress has passed a meaningful law since the beginning of the year. That’s eight months! Good gracious alive, I know what we should be thinking, “Why are we paying them?” Has the world come to a stop? Are all the good laws already on the books? Can this group not think of…

Aw man, this could be really bad. I’m talking Sing Sing. Or maybe Leavenworth. They might reopen Alcatraz just for me. I don’t believe they’re going to let me off with just a few nights in the Starkville City Jail. I got a letter from the IRS. The first page laid out the purported crime….