ESI Staff
This Week’s Independent Thinker
There is good news all around the world, none of it making headlines as red and crazy as bad news. One bit came from...
American Insights
Marching On
Before they marched, they kneeled and prayed at Browns Chapel Methodist. “And then we set out, nearly six hundred of us,” John Lewis...
The Coffee Table
Censorship, Pronouns, and Beer, Oh My!
Knowing I write a weekly column, a dear friend asked that I take a look at Arkansas Senate Bill...
Land In Our Hands
It took high maintenance to live in Eureka Springs
Nate Huff has worked as a bartender at Chelsea’s since it first opened in 1989 but...
The Dirt on Nicky
Recrudescence
A famous gardener recently announced on social media he just had to go dig an onion bed, and that’s all he said. The subtext...
Hall Closets
College baseball and softball seasons are here, and the PLINK! PLINK! PLINK! acoustics of such could not have arrived at a better moment in...
The Reel News
Pictured is Yours Truly who did not take an (L)
Beaver Tailwaters report:
This week is the tale of ups and downs, with the trout and...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week March 5 – 11, 2025
Venus Retrograde then Mercury Retrogrades, too!
On Saturday March 1, Venus, the brilliant yellow-white Evening Star stationed retrograde at 11 degrees Aries. Venus began its...
Land in our Hands
Power of the flower
Grey-haired and dreadlocked United States Marine Corps veteran Brian Tagliaferro has a vision of the power in a flower. Brian and...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Linguists interpret and translate written and spoken information.
Leonie Cornips is a linguist who has spent her career studying variations of syntax in Dutch dialects.
Fine...