Do you have a picky eater? I was one. Just ask my mom! Now I have one.
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Thinking about all the foods I wouldn’t eat reminded me of some picky eaters I have known. I remember all the Thanksgiving dinners that included pizza because a nephew, now an adult vegan, would only eat pizza. At the community college where I worked a parent protested the requirement to buy a meal card and won because her son only ate Fruit Loops.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 30, 2010, 2:13 pm
Mindless Games/Surviving August
“August – parched season of the puffball
and the milkweed and the peeling nose…
and the sun abateth not.” ~ Peg Bracken
I recently pulled Peg Bracken’s “I Hate To Cook Almanac” down from the shelf to find an easy cookie recipe, settling on “Peanut Butter Pokies” – only 3 ingredients, mix, bake, eat. While the cookies did what cookies do (350* for 10 minutes), I skimmed the book, enjoying the humor.
by Beth Jacks, Gazette Delta Editor
on August 30, 2010, 2:10 pm
Aimee’s Curried Chicken Salad
8 to 10 chicken breast tenders
½ cup Lite soy sauce
1 bunch green onions, sliced
1-1/2 stalks celery, chopped fine
1 can sliced water chestnuts, drained
1 lemon, juiced
1 can sliced black olives
¾ cup pecan pieces, toasted
3 eggs hard boiled and chopped
1 teaspoon curry powder
½ teaspoon onion salt
½ teaspoon freshly grated black pepper
1 cup mayonnaise
by Anne McKeown
on August 30, 2010, 2:06 pm
"Nativism in American politics has become so rampant that it is considered scandalous in Republican circles for a judge to acknowledge paying any attention to foreign courts and their legal rulings." -- New York Times editorial, Aug. 3, 2010
The New York Times runs this same smug editorial every few months -- at least I think it's the same editorial -- to vent its spleen at conservatives who object to American judges relying on foreign law to interpret the U.S. Constitution.
by Ann Coulter
on August 30, 2010, 2:02 pm
Last week – Aug. 18, actually – marked the 90th year that American women have enjoyed the right to vote. They won that right when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920. This year is also the 81st anniversary of the Persons Case in Canada, which finally declared women in that country to be persons.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 30, 2010, 1:57 pm
The Gazette's longtime Political Consultant Sonny Clower of East Fork now monitors the political winds of America via the wireless internet! His best friend Barnacle Bill is known to come by and use his computer frequently!
on August 30, 2010, 1:50 pm
One thing we can say for sure is that faith has nothing to do with certainty. In the first three verses of Hebrews, I see no certainty, but an uncertainty that keeps one moving. Which tells me that faith is never static.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill, Gazette Religion Editor
on August 27, 2010, 12:44 pm
By Dr. M. Thomas Inge
Editor’s Note: Phi Beta Kappa’s national magazine, “The Key Reporter,” published a review in the Summer 2010 issue of R. C. Wood’s collection of poetry, “Keeper of the Dream,” which was published by the Magnolia Gazette last year. Dr. Inge, a professor of humanities at Randolph-Macon College in Ash-land, Virginia, is a noted authority on popular culture and comic art history. He is the author or editor of over 50 books. To obtain a copy of Wood’s book, call Nancy at the Gazette at 601-783-2441. --- ED
by By Dr. M. Thomas Inge
on August 27, 2010, 11:47 am
I remember in 1998 when John Glenn made his final flight into the far reaches of space, I was reminded of Al-dous Huxley’s summation of the glory and pain of being human: “The choice is always ours. Unlike so much of the rest of creation, we humans have been given the gift of freedom, which is to say that we participate significantly in the formation of our own lives and destinies.”
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill, Gazette Religion Editor
on August 27, 2010, 11:43 am
From: Allyn Evans
Date: 8/16/2010 4:16:46 PM
To: Donna; Nancy
Subject: column
Here you go!
The Alert Parent: Not Right Now
Word count: 597
My first longing to be older and more experienced occurred when I was in elementary school. I was at the health clinic to get a necessary vaccination. As we lined up to receive our medicine, I comforted myself by envisioning the Allyn of the future. “If I were 18-years-old, this wouldn’t even hurt,” I thought. “An 18-year-old wouldn’t be scared or cry.” Of course I was scared and I’m sure I cried.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 27, 2010, 11:40 am
