Mind Over Money

I read Nick Kristof’s column in the New York Times on Sunday. It was entitled, “Do we have the courage to stop this?” Kristof writes about common sense gun regulations in Canada and Australia that we might consider implementing. The first time the column below ran, I received some of the nastiest and scariest e-mails [...]

I don’t like guns. My father had an old shotgun he kept in the closet, unloaded of course. He was a country boy who never took to hunting, so I had no experience with firearms and the sport surrounding their use. Two husbands, no hunters. When I married Ken, he had a small handgun. He [...]

My phone rang last week. It was some guy named Brett personally inviting me to a campaign event for Mitt Romney via a taped message. Robocalls? In Mississippi? And could that have been “THE” Brett? The Republican Primary has dragged on long enough to make candidates take note of us voters in little ole Mississippi. [...]