How are you getting in the Halloween spirit? To prepare for the most fun holiday of the year you could re-watch your favorite horror films, share ghosts stories with friends and family, or go to a haunted house. Another fun thing to do this season is to go to the Annual Cedar Hill Farm's Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze. This event will feature a large corn... [Read more...]

I remember how tough it was to study for standardized tests as a kid – more so because of the pressure than the actual content of the tests themselves.  Some of that pressure can come from lack of preparation.  Prep for the test questions themselves, yes, but also prep for the format of the test, timing, and other factors that go along with test-taking. Now... [Read more...]

When you were a kid, did you have strict rules about dress code? As you probably know, DeSoto County instituted a no-shorts rule two years ago for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.  Before that, kids had more freedom in what they decided to wear to school.  Now, the tide has changed.  Because of a recent DeSoto County School Board vote, they... [Read more...]

In a stroke of luck, Baptist-DeSoto Medical Center dietician Wilmetta Neely managed to turn a chance lunch meeting into a $1 million deal.  As Neely was planning a church retreat with other church members over lunch one day, a man at the next table – Oliver Washington – inquired about what she was wearing, which was an American Diabetes Association baseball... [Read more...]