I couldn’t have been more than 7 years old when I noticed that spring season that my parents had a few seeds left over from their garden-planting that April. I asked if I could have the spare seeds, and they were glad to oblige, I’m sure, wondering what a 7-year-old would ever want with seeds for squash, cucumber, purple hull peas, and lettuce. Heck, at that age, I didn’t even really like any of those things.
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By Steve Watkins
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3/2/21
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This week, just a few thoughts and observations, and a project particularly where I could use your feedback.
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By Steve Watkins
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2/25/21
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We’ve taken one of the most beautiful things in all of commerce, and like most other successful initiatives, turned it into a cookie-cutter enterprise stamping it into existence at the edge every small town across the South.
Oh, how I miss the old-style, mom-and-pop general store.
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By Steve Watkins
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2/16/21
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There’s a funny nameplate on my desk that reads: “I’m kind of a big deal.”
But the truth is, down deep, I’ve never been that much about self.
Not that it’s some admirable attribute of a sweetheart of a guy. I’m a live-how-you-feel kind of guy who doesn’t hide his emotions well, but ideas like self-love and self-care just never lined up with my personality.
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By Steve Watkins
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2/2/21
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It’s hard to overstate the significance of an issue now before the Stone County Quorum Court that at least one justice calls “contentious.”
While alcohol sales and wet-dry issues across the state are, indeed, historically contentious, they carry significance well beyond the moral dilemma most frequently debated.
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By Steve Watkins
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1/27/21
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It looked like a duck. It quacked like a duck. But it wasn’t a duck.
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1/20/21
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Winter is the best season.
Convince me I’m wrong.
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By Steve Watkins
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1/20/21
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