Musings


October 2000 to October 2010 to October 2020...and beyond

In October, Bluffs & Bayous will be celebrating its tenth anniversary of promoting life along and beyond the Mississippi River. What a fast ten years these have been and ones chronicling many changes among the talented, enthusiastic, farsighted, and savvy people who have been involved with the production, composition, distribution, and promotion of the magazine.

What has remained unchanged, though, is our staunch commitment to publish what is informative, entertaining, social, and aesthetically pleasing to mind and eye and soul. We have celebrated anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, grand openings, pilgrimage parties, engagements, back-to-school events, proms, sip-n-sees, barbeques, festivals, book signings, story tellings—the proverbial times of our lives. Although, more solemnly, we have witnessed 9-11, hurricanes, tornados, flooding, gasoline increases, economic concerns, national security issues, and our area’s latest natural disaster—the oil spill, we have offered our readers a respite from this mayhem of life. Our focus, instead, has been the positive forces of our communities and growing distribution areas, the matters that tickle our fancies, peak our nobler interests, and both soothe our spirits and make them soar.

Our focus also has been on our communities’ welfare. If our nation’s economy is actually a global one, then our local economies are actually a collective one. Our travels down the road and across county and state lines to see specialty professionals and unique retail merchants, to follow athletic teams, and to visit family and friends bear witness to the collective concerns and intra-community support we provide each other. Bluffs & Bayous’ support and our readers’ support of our communities at large have been good for us all.

Among the many rewards of our ten-years tenure has been our readers’ avid support. Whether they acquire our magazines free at local businesses and shops or by subscription to locales beyond our distribution areas, our readers frequently voice their anticipation of our monthly columns and spotlights on the people who visit our area, live in our area, or have grown up in our area and return for family affairs and class reunions. We get calls and emails daily from readers requesting back issues or copies of recipes or subscriptions that provide them a piece of the pie of positive life in the Bluffs & Bayous area—their monthly perk of the upbeat and the upscale. It has been and continues to be our pleasure to share this chronicle of activity with everyone in our 80,000-readership area . . . and beyond.

Bluffs & Bayous also has enjoyed the confidence and support of so many advertisers for these ten years, offering them a major marketing strategy with both hands-on and online promotional appeal, one that has realized increasing popularity and benefits throughout the last decade. We remain humbled by their trust in our commitment to safeguard and enhance the quality and craftsmanship in our artistic design, as well as in our social scenes, calendar of events, articles, and columns that cover our communities’ homes and family life, outdoors adventures and meanderings, gardening updates, culinary interests, cultural events, and literature.
We thank you, our readers and advertisers, for your years of support and trust as we eagerly look forward to a new decade of partnering with you in the growth of our economy, of sharing with you our unique Southern lifestyle, and of celebrating with you all that we treasure about life along and beyond the Mississippi.


- Cheryl & Jean