I’m writing these words during the weeks before Valentine. So far we’ve had a damaging cold blast but Mother Nature’s earlier gift to Mississippi was, at least, not snow and ice. Snow can be fun but ...

Soprano Maren Hrivnak barely had time for a sigh of relief after her all-Baroque doctoral recital last fall, before her proud Papaw approached her with do-it-again zeal. “He did not waste much time,” ...