Archive - Lifestyle
By
Kate Salter - Contributing Columnist
Iâll preface this by saying overall, I prefer college sports to professional sports because, for one, Mississippi does not have a local professional team to support, and Iâm not sure professional athl
By ANGIE CARNATHAN
sdnlife@bellsouth.net
A The Starkville Young Professionals are getting ready for a big competition this weekend, but it wonât be taking place on a football field.
By
Jay Reed - Eats One Ate
Not too many weeks ago, around the holidays, we began a discussion of comfort food. In that column, I suggested that at least one aspect of it had to do with the traditions with which certain dishes w
January 24th
By ANGIE CARNATHAN
sdnlife@bellsouth.net
It may be hard to admit for some, but the Super Bowl is not just about a football game. For many, itâs really about the food.
By
Kate Salter - Contributing Columnist
Cookies are good for you. Really. Also, money grows on trees, and one day very soon automobiles will run on happy thoughts.
By
Jay Reed - Eats One Ate
Stand in the middle of our town, throw a rock in any direction and you will hear the clink of stone against blue plate. Starkville loves its plate lunches, its âmeat ân threeâsâ and its blue plate spe
January 20th
By RUTH MORGAN
For Starkville Daily News
Three expressions describe a special lady named Minnie Fox. They are: âWhat you say?â, âgal baby,â and âsister girl!â
The kids of â47, my confreres, the infamous boomlets, have reached a milestone year.
January 17th
Two local firemen, Taurus Young and Brian Arnett, were chosen to appear in the 2012 Mississippi Firefighters Calendar. On Friday, Jan.
By
Jay Reed - Eats One Ate
The trees are boxed up, re-planted or chopped into firewood. The Santas have been deflated and the light shows turned off â most of them at least. But Christmas lingers on for me via the scales and in
By
Kate Salter - Contributing Columnist
When I want to be alone, which is often considering I am an only child with an independent streak as obvious as a forehead tattoo and my work requires me to be in constant contact with hundreds of oth
January 13th
By
Emily Jones - Deluded Diva
All my friends think Iâm crazy. No, wait. Letâs make that, they are pretty certain Iâve finally flown over the cuckooâs nest. I prefer to think of myself as frugal â maybe even a tad cheap.
By
Carole McReynolds Davis - Contributing Columnist
January 15 and 16 of 2012 shall be two beautiful days of our celebration of unity in our community because we have joined hands to form a cross to help make positive changes in our civil rights moveme
January 10th
By
Kate Salter - Contributing Columnist
Admittedly, I am a crock pot snob. Not that I donât love the whole âeasy, dinner is done, one potâ thing.
By
Jay Reed - Eats One Ate
The experts tell us that New Yearâs Resolutions are more likely to be carried out if we 1) set reasonable goals, and 2) break those goals into bite-sized pieces.
January 3rd
Recently, I wrote a piece on the popular New Yearâs resolution to lose weight. I interviewed Elaine Schimpf, a trainer at the Oktibbeha County Wellness Connection who made some very good points about how and why this resolution often fails. This information, combined with the nagging voice in my head thatâs been telling me for a while now that I need to get back in shape, sparked an idea Iâd like to share with our readers. Perhaps we can even encourage a few to join us.
Michael Wardlaw, a sports writer at Starkville Daily News and I have each taken on the challenge to make healthier choices in 2012 ââ not just for a few weeks or even a few months, but for the rest of the year. Our methods and ultimate goals might be different, but each of us decided that in our own ways we could live healthier lives. We decided to hold ourselves accountable to our readers while simultaneously offering our readers the opportunity to join us along this path to living longer, happier and healthier lives.
By
Kate Salter - Contributing Columnist
My parents used to say that when they went to my grandmother for parenting advice, she would tell them that children should be like pancakes â you ought to be able to throw the first one out and start over.
I couldnât help remembering that anecdote during my last cooking endeavor and thinking that her analogy should also apply to crab cakes.
Using my cousin and former Starkville resident Nancy Princeâs recipe, I tried to make crab cakes at home the other day, since theyâre one of my favorite items to order when I eat out, and her recipe looked delicious and simple. Nancy is, for my money, the best cook in our family, and I knew if she liked them, I probably would, too.
The assembly process went well, but the frying â not so much. Much like when I cook pancakes, the first one was a bit undercooked and mangled. The second I almost burned up, but I made the third one almost perfect.
By
Jay Reed - Eats One Ate
Itâs the time of year for resolutions, but I havenât felt very resolute just yet. Iâve been blowing and going since Thanksgiving and havenât had time to think much about 2012. However, resolutions oft
December 31st, 2011
Hurray! We made it through another year â full of ups and downs and resolutions long forgotten. What happened in 2011, stays in 2011.
My clock ticks on the âole 100 year old antique desktop of a former Mississippi State University presidentâs desk. I am in our downstairs art studio. I hear the ticking at 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 29.
December 27th
Not long ago, a family friend and reader suggested that I attempt to do a column that would define the concept of comfort food. âAttemptâ was not the word he used â that vocabulary was of my own choos
Well, I ate entirely too much over the Christmas holiday. On such unspeakable items as a dip consisting of two kinds of cheese to multiple slices of chess pie, I overindulged.
December 24th
By
Don Vaughan - Vaughanâs Vocabulary
Recently I researched the background of one of my favorite carols. A wine merchant in Roquemaure, France, who served as mayor of that town, was asked to write a poem for the Christmas Eve mass.
By
Carole McReynolds Davis - Contributing Columnist
Christmas is a time of the year that we bustle around getting ready for the big day, Dec. 25. We experience strenuous activity as we get everything together for the most beloved holiday of our year.
