This version of Stein’s Law could be about lots of long running Ponzi schemes. Mississippi’s under-funded Public Employee Retirement Fund, for example, where employee contributions and investment returns don’t and won’t cover payments to retirees.
Mississippi State’s irrepressible Jake Mangum was hitting for a .401 average coming into this week. He had stolen 20 bases. As a centerfielder, he uses sprinter’s speed to catch balls others can’t reach. He turns triples into outs. He is the heart and soul of a team that has won 42 games while losing 10.
My son is going to need therapy. I am 100% sure that the events of the last couple weeks have left him with PTSD. It began with his birth. Well, kind of. I was recently at a meeting with the OBGYN who delivered him.
It was a fine morning but words from an old World War II song, ‘as the shadows fall,’ clouded my thoughts as I scanned our itinerary for the day.
One of the greatest blessings to us all is the love of our mothers.
I lost my mother seven years ago. It is still painful to think of that day. There has been a big hole in my heart ever since. I lost the one person in the world who loved me unconditionally.
There it was--clipped to his writing board--a half-finished crossword puzzle, USA TODAY, October 24, 2005; his pencil tucked securely under the clip; everything in its place just the way he always left things.
Pour a glass of Shiraz.
Let me tell you a story about unruly children and a remarkable woman who did her best to control them. Until 2019, I didn’t know how remarkable she was.
This past weekend brought a drive through the Delta on a road not traveled in recent years. We were headed north U.S. 49 East on a sunny spring Sunday, just passing the community of Sidon, when I saw the sign: “Willye B. White Memorial Highway.”
Mother’s Day is this weekend—you’re welcome fellow, forgetful procrastinators. When I was a kid, Mother’s Day meant signing my name to a card my dad had picked out and being just as surprised about what gift we gave my mom as she was when she opened it over breakfast in bed.
“Your mother would have been dancing on the table,” a man said to me as my friends and I walked out of church.
“I was thinking the same thing,” I answered him, wondering how in the name of Tom Thunder this younger man could have known my mother that well.
This version of Stein’s Law could be about lots of long running Ponzi schemes.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sutton Bowen announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Bowen... READ MORE
Aaron Pelch, interim athletic director and head football coach at Millsaps College, has been formally named as athletic director. Pelch will continue to serve as head football coach.
