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...