If you’re the parent of a teen, welcome to the roller coaster. Some days I’m riding high, hands in the air, yelling for joy at the top of my lungs. On these days I’ve done really good in the mommy department. Maybe I’ve given some well-received advice or helped in what I perceive a big-big way. On other days I find myself at the low end of things. Maybe because of my own actions my daughter misses an important deadline. Or I make someone mad because I keep saying, “no, no, no.” On those days I am bad, bad, bad. On those days anything I try is wrong, wrong, wrong.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on September 3, 2010, 1:06 pm
“I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.”
~ Meryl Streep
Well, the fashion folks are all a’twitter with the 2010 fall trends in clothing and accessories. As usual, the new fashions, in my opinion, look like something the dog dragged in. I’m not surprised – they always are – so, like Meryl, I don’t pay much attention. Some trends, however, are so bad this season that I must comment.
by Beth Jacks, Gazette Delta Editor
on September 3, 2010, 1:02 pm
In scripture “agape” love, that is love given without any expectation of return is the kind of love that Jesus practiced. He did not love people in order to get them to follow him; that was their choice. He loved them whether they followed him or not.
But over the years religious law has seemed to overshadow the agape love we are supposed to be sharing, and we have come to call these laws “virtue.” And today the institutional church seems to be more about virtue than sharing agape love with people in need.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill, Gazette Religion Editor
on September 3, 2010, 12:59 pm
Doot's Tomato Aspic
1 envelope gelatin
1/2 cup cold tomato juice
1-1/4 cups boiling hot tomato juice
* salt to taste
1 small bay leaf
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1 beef bouillon cube
by Anne McKeown
on September 3, 2010, 12:44 pm
The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has come and gone. You missed a good one if you did not see NBC’s Dateline on 8/22/10, The Five Days after Katrina. Previously I had refused to watch any of the media, it upset me so. I watched this one but cried off and on through out the whole thing. Sad, it was, but I was able to handle the program. Thank God for the survival of N.O. and the MS. Coast of such a devastating storm. My son recommends “I Am New Orleans” on you tube.com. Thank you, Ben Rauch, for making me a DVD of your recording of the Dateline program.
by Ann Coulter
on September 3, 2010, 12:36 pm
The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has come and gone. You missed a good one if you did not see NBC’s Dateline on 8/22/10, The Five Days after Katrina. Previously I had refused to watch any of the media, it upset me so. I watched this one but cried off and on through out the whole thing. Sad, it was, but I was able to handle the program. Thank God for the survival of N.O. and the MS. Coast of such a devastating storm. My son recommends “I Am New Orleans” on you tube.com. Thank you, Ben Rauch, for making me a DVD of your recording of the Dateline program.
by Gloria Q. Smith, Special to the Gazette
on September 3, 2010, 12:30 pm
A short five years
As any one of you who watches television or reads a newspaper is aware, Hurricane Katrina occurred five years ago last Sunday. The week after that occurrence proved to be one of the toughest we had faced in our neck of the woods in a long time.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on September 3, 2010, 12:28 pm
The bean-counters have struck again-- this time in the sports pages. Two
> New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from
> minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third
> base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than
> first-base coaches.
> This may seem to be just another passing piece of silliness. But it is
> part of a more general bean-counting mentality that turns statistical
> differences into grievances. The time is long overdue to throw this race
by Thomas Sowell
on September 3, 2010, 12:18 pm
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
