Life + Culture

Ring In the New

A New Year’s Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church Sixteen years after Mandeville was founded in 1834, Alfred, Lord Tennyson published Ring Out, Wild Bells , a poem whose rhythm moves like real bells with each stanza a clear strike that encourages us to ring out the old and ring in the new. In these stanzas, Tennyson wasn’t interested in polite optimism or surface polish. He was chasing something deeper...

Finance + Legal Services

Redefining Wellness for Northshore Families

Meet attorney Zara Zeringue, who helps families regain emotional steadiness, reshape communication, and move toward healthier futures. Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Abby Sands To understand how Zara Zeringue practices law, start with this: she once bungee-jumped 140 feet off an old train bridge with her mother just to see what fear felt like. Zara has always been drawn to what waits on the far side of fear, and that’s why clients find her when everything in their lives...

Wellness

Heal Thy Body, Heal Thy Soul

The Revolutionary Energy System That’s Restoring Health and Wellness Throughout the Northshore Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Abby Sands, Allyson Lipari, Christian George When the (surname) family walked into Healthy Body Healthy Soul with their son Anthony, a nonverbal child with autism and a seizure disorder, they carried the weary tenderness familiar to so many parents of neurodivergent children: the long nights, the constant vigilance, the quiet ache of uncertainty. ...

Shopping

Pink Magnolia Marketplace

Natasha Buckholtz Transforms Challenges Into Charm, Creating a Marketplace that Celebrates Beauty, Belonging, and the Unstoppable Strength of Entrepreneurship Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Trent Spann The magnolia is a paradox: delicate yet unshakable, blooming like silk but surviving like stone. It’s the quintessential Southern emblem of strength in disguise. “Life is about shifting,” says Natasha Buckholtz, owner of Pink Magnolia Marketplace. “The path you’re on today...

Beauty

Giving the Gift of Color

How Jan Rivers Uses Color Analysis to Restore Confidence and Transform Lives Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Abby Sands Jan Rivers has always been coloring. What began with crayons and coloring books evolved over time into a lifelong calling: a gift for helping people rediscover themselves through color. Shades of Childhood   Jan grew up in a small Alabama town with pine trees, long summers, and hospital corridors bright with florescent light. Her sister was born with...

Professional Services

Thankful Threads & Timeless Vows

Olivier Couture’s mission to honor faith, family, and forever moments Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Abby Sands The first thing you notice inside Mandeville’s Olivier Couture Bridal Boutique is the color. A hush of pink, soft as dawn, It’s unapologetically feminine, perhaps because Jolie Goodreau, the owner, raised four sons at home. “Pink,” she says, “was my rebellion, my one place to be girly.” Her story begins not in couture but in classrooms. A special education...

Finance + Legal Services

Family. Faith. Gratitude. Growth.

How the Fussell family turned five agents into a gold-standard legacy of thankfulness and service Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Arianna Temples These days, insurance is rarely thought of as inspiring. And yet, in the heart of Old Covington, the Fussell family has built an agency that feels less like a company and more like a community. Fussell Group Insurance Advisors was founded in 2012 with just five agents. Today, it has grown to more than a hundred advisors across the...

Style + Beauty

Laura Cayouette

Hollywood Lights to Louisiana Roots: Commander’s Palace Welcomes a Queen Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Austin Smith of POLA Marketing, Andrew Cooper, James Kong INTERIOR – COMMANDER’S PALACE – MORNING A woman in towering heels stands in front of Commander’s Palace. Her dress, a psychedelic dragon print, dares the morning traffic to look away. We’re shooting a cover. Oak trees offer shade, but the humidity laughs. It’s the kind of wet heat that melts makeup and fogs...

Professional Services

Saving You Money

How Stephen Hammond’s Italian Family Dinners Prepared Him to Serve His Clients Well … and Seek Out Cost-Saving Options We Never Knew We Had Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Katie Patterson Photography When I met Stephen at PJ’s Coffee in Mandeville, I didn’t expect him to look me straight in the eye and tell me he’d rather eat Vienna sausage for a week than sell someone the wrong insurance plan. I did expect a pitch, charts, jargon. But what I got was a conversation with a...

Finance + Legal Services

Charlton Ogden

The Man Who Was Saved to Save Others Article by Christian George, PhD | Photography by Trent Spann of Images by Robert T. Charlton Ogden III carries his ancestry like a tailored suit: stitched with lineage, lined with resilience. He is the thirteenth generation in a family of attorneys, stretching back to Robert Nash, the first governor of North Carolina. For centuries, the Ogdens practiced law in New Orleans; they were judges, speakers of the Louisiana House, men who etched their names into...