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By Christina Pierce, 217 Reads
Mon, 05/03/2021 - 09:01 AM

First things first, I want to remind you that this coming Monday, May 3rd, is when the nomination period opens for the Festival South Best of the Pine Belt. Just go to hubcityspokes.com and you’ll find the link to nominate your favorite businesses and professionals.

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OPINION: The Evolution of Happiness

By Christina Pierce, 345 Reads
Thu, 04/22/2021 - 11:13 AM

I was young once. To all my female friends from 50 years and up: we’re at that age where we see wrinkles, gray hair, and extra pounds. We see the cute 25-year-olds and reminisce. But we were also 25, just as they will one day be our age.

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Lessons from the Hatfields and McCoys

By Christina Pierce, 264 Reads
Wed, 04/07/2021 - 03:22 PM

Over the Easter weekend, my husband and I watched, in addition to “The Ten Commandments,” all three episodes of the made-for-tv miniseries “Hatfields and McCoys.” Originally aired in 2012, it is a dramatization of the bitter feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.

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Let People Talk And Steer Your Own Ship

By Christina Pierce, 425 Reads
Thu, 03/25/2021 - 03:32 PM

I recently was the recipient of an email that I deemed unjust and unkind.

Oh, well; if you do anything worth doing, some people will attack you.

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Lessons for the 'new normal'

By Christina Pierce, 664 Reads
Thu, 03/11/2021 - 10:50 AM

It’s hard to believe that one year has gone by since our lives were upended by the pandemic, but today marks one year since the first case was diagnosed in Forrest County.

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There's no such thing as a 'free lunch'

By Christina Pierce, 700 Reads
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 05:15 PM

We hear, “You are going to get $1,400” in stimulus money, and we wonder why it is taking so long to bet this thing passed. But, like anything, there really is no free lunch. I did some poking around and, amazingly, good, bipartisan information is almost impossible to find.

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The Pursuit of Kindness

By Christina Pierce, 682 Reads
Thu, 02/25/2021 - 12:12 PM

Examples of kindness in the midst of a pandemic abound: neighbors and friends who offer to pick things up at the store, Americans checking in on each other and especially on older adults, and the extraordinary courage and kindness of health care workers who show up every day knowing that their jobs put them at risk, a risk not only for themselve

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Seeking the opportunities for kindness

By Christina Pierce, 718 Reads
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 02:40 PM

We are all cynical at times; it’s my belief that social media breeds cynicism.

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This Valentine's Day, take stock of your friends

By Christina Pierce, 741 Reads
Wed, 02/10/2021 - 04:32 PM

I had some time off this past Monday and Tuesday. We planned to travel to Monroe, Louisiana, where my youngest son’s high school basketball jersey was being retired Monday night. We decided not to make the trip due to COVID-19, but we were able to watch the halftime ceremony on Facebook.

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Friend, will you accept this rose?

By Christina Pierce, 765 Reads
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 05:08 PM

Welcome to the Month of Love.

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