Lifestyles
Two old relics for the man cave
While in Brookhaven recently I stopped off at the Vendor’s Emporium to browse. This has for many years been a most unique store filled with ...
Mike Dykes, Author at Daily Leader
Lifestyles
Concern from 7,647 miles away
While stationed in a war zone in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2012, I reached out to two bank professionals that I had never met in Mississippi ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, January 14, 2017 6:26 pm
Brookhaven
When it all comes together
It is indescribable to have a dream buck walk by your deer stand and offer a clean shot after diligently hunting him for three months. ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, January 7, 2017 2:46 pm
Lifestyles
An incentive to achieve
On the day of the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I met a most interesting member of the military while I was in Brookhaven. I ...
by Mike Dykes, Monday, January 2, 2017 2:19 pm
Lifestyles
A Christmas to remember
Lately I have reflected on Christmases of yore and some in particular came back to me as priceless. Like the time I drove all the ...
by Mike Dykes, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 7:46 pm
Lifestyles
A day of honor
Dec. 7 will always be a day we look back upon as a day of infamy, just like Pres. F.D.R. said we would do in ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, December 17, 2016 8:04 pm
Lifestyles
The good cemeterian
Not long ago right here in this fine paper, I read where a lady was set to restore the main cemetery here in Brookhaven. On ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, December 10, 2016 6:17 pm
Lifestyles
The call on the field has been reversed
Like most of you, Thanksgiving Day was a continued tradition of turkey and dressing and a lot of football with family and friends. Many professional ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, December 3, 2016 11:26 am
Lifestyles
Rat’s nest coffee is the worst
Yeah, I know that sounds bad and what’s worse is the taste. There is great coffee, decent coffee and bad coffee, but rat’s nest coffee ...
by Mike Dykes, Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:41 am
Lifestyles
Making a difference in one little boy’s life named Eli
You can build cathedrals with steeples so high and make them as elaborate as money will buy, but what good is a building if it ...
by Mike Dykes, Saturday, November 19, 2016 12:48 pm
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