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We are excited to bring you this edition of Oxford Magazine. The theme this month is Renewal: Beauty, Fashion, Fitness. After a long cold winter with more snow than most have ever seen in Oxford, we welcome a chance to cast off our heavy coats of winter and step into the sunshine and newness of Spring. We also have hope that our 2021 will be better than the pandemic year we just survived with more events and in-person activities again like Ole Miss baseball and the Oxford Film Festival. In this issue, we are inspired by two Oxford women who used the 2020 pandemic to get fit and lose weight. This was a personal journey for each and they had different ways to approach the task. We celebrate their success in this issue. We also are challenged by a new contributor and Oxford counselor Sarah Grey to think again about changes we want to make in our lives this year. She gives us ideas to think about transformation and how to make the changes we want stick. There are many goals to tackle and Spring is a great time to get started. Beauty is not just skin deep, as we discover in the article by Hayden Wiggs about the still new business Skin in downtown Oxford. The business itself is a great addition to Oxford and the article explains tips to make our skin feel and look best for the season ahead. We also have tips for warmer weather makeup behind the mask in our interview with Amy Head. For Food and Dining, we celebrate crawfish season which are perfectly plump and juicy this time of year in our feature about The Landshark. New Spring fashion and beauty items abound at boutiques and stores in Oxford. Take a look at our fresh finds in our Style section. We also welcome Jim Dees column as he always entertains with his local insights on life. Rebecca Alexander Publisher rebecca.alexander@oxfordmag.com
Curtis Wilkie
Curtis Wilkie, author, University of Mississippi professor retires in Oxford after a decades long career. Photo by University of Mississippi Communications Design by Kimberly Myers
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