American Insights

The Backway Forward  On April 4, 1954, a short but stocky black preacher stood at the pulpit within the humble walls of Dexter Avenue Baptist...

The Coffee Table

Orphan on Vacation I am an orphan. Mom passed away on Saturday. It wasn’t a shock. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 11 years ago, she’d been progressively losing...

Dropping a Line

Yes, they’re in the water and they do like the cooler water temps. We seem to be running about 77° – 78° about all...

HavingREELFun

The Dick family from Kansas has been fishing Beaver Lake on Father’s Day weekend for 3 years. The family looks up Patrick Forseth, owner...

The Pursuit of Happiness

It’s been a lousy week and everyone I’ve run into has been cranky. One old grouch in my coffee klatch referred to Valentine’s Day...

The Nature of Eureka

From tree hugging to therapy If you hear the phrase “forest bathing,” your mind may flash to skinny-dipping at a remote swimming hole in an...

The Nature of Eureka

Syphilitic Blues A plant I seek out this time of year to enjoy its sheer beauty is great blue lobelia which occurs in the wet...

Hognobbing

FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas’ chances at a bowl game have pretty much disappeared after a 1-2 start, which included embarrassing losses to Colorado State and...

Free Parking

Happy New Year! We start 2018 with ever expanding investigations into the Republicons’ treasonous conspiracy against the United States and Republicons in Congress dismantling our...

ISawArkansas

It has come to our attention that people – friends, the employed, numerous heads-of-state – ordinary people with hormones, dualities, peer pressure and simple...