ESI Staff
Ahoy, ye landlubbers!
Arrr ye lookin’ for adventure on a body o’ water surrounded by ports o’ call just loaded with treasure and swim beaches? If yer...
Dinner for Six
Mason Cox is a high school teacher, construction guy, vinyl enthusiast and all out nerd.
How did you get to Eureka Springs?
In my Toyota...
From the Back Porch
Throughout the country these late spring days come sounds of discomfort and confusion. From Exxon stations to Kroger Foods to Walmart, the anguished questions:...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: The Arsenal of Democracy
On the last Sunday night of December 1940, Franklin Roosevelt sat before a radio microphone in the White...
The Dirt on Nicky
Plant hunters
Back when we made long treks from Asia to the Fertile Crescent without GPS or Rand-McNally atlases, we got hungry along the way,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We probably all know a fisherman and we probably all know an artist. But how many people are both?
The Japanese were early birds in...
The Coffee Table
The Profitability of Radical Kindness
I’ve been encountering “nonprofit” organizations that make me bristle. Like the one that will charge me to dump my kitchen scraps...
The Reel News
Pictured is Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Austin Kennedy with this very nice Beaver Lake smallmouth bass.
The Beaver tailwaters have continued to produce good fishing...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week June 3 – 9, 2026
Sunbeams, Light Beams, the Light of Interplay – Gemini
We remain under the light of Gemini. Gemini’s Light is the “light of interplay.” Gemini...
The Coffee Table
Bat Mitzvah and Jam
I recently attended my adult daughter’s bat mitzvah via Zoom. Generally speaking, religious ceremonies don’t resonate with me. And when...