In June 2020, I started my boutique estate planning and business law practice with the mission of bringing innovative, creative and proactive legal counsel to coastal Mississippi. After extensively researching firms on the Gulf Coast, I realized that most lawyers offered services based on antiquated models and high overhead costs. This usually meant poor client […]
2020 was Stephanie Anne Box’s breakthrough year. In early June, the kindergarten teacher at Pecan Park Elementary in Ocean Springs sent a writing sample to an editor at Rourke Educational Media. Within a week, she had a contract to write her first book for the publishing house. “I had waited over two decades to hear […]
Fess up — at some point, you’ve gotten so frustrated with a computer that you’ve imagined hurling it out a window. Maybe you actually did … and we aren’t here to judge. After months or years of constant use, your once lightning-fast machine may be struggling to keep up. Is it time to throw in […]
Thanks to Jodie Picciano-Swanson, many formerly homeless veterans have shelter and sustenance. Victims of relationship violence have relocated and started new lives. Cancer patients and their families have found some measure of peace. The Ocean Springs resident strives to be a force for good as a licensed clinical social worker. Since 2015, she has served […]
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We asked some local leaders and experts how you can come out of the pandemic even better than you went in — and what you should be focusing on as the year ends. Read on for their words of wisdom: GENEVA DUMMER Owner/Operator, The Meeting Place What’s your best advice for “leveling up,” not […]
Entrepreneurship always involves risk. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 25 percent of new businesses survive for 15 years or more. So, when a company has endured for decades, what’s their secret? We asked the leaders of some of the Coast’s most well-respected, longest-operating businesses what it takes to go the distance. […]
The aftermath is all too familiar to south Mississippians: downed trees and power lines, shingles and siding stripped from homes, debris littering the streets, days without electricity — to say nothing of the frayed nerves. When Hurricane Zeta barreled into the Gulf Coast on Oct. 28, a pandemic and hurricane-weary region weathered another blow. But […]
