The Dirt on Nicky

Beans on the bushes This time of year there are beans on the bushes, so all’s right with the world. The Baker Creek seed catalog...

Dropping a Line

Robert Johnson - This week thought I would show you that we also have big other big fish around here besides just stripers. Local...

The Coffee Table

Life Support It’s been decades since I’ve held a yard sale, and co-hosting one last weekend reminded me why. If you consider all the culling, lifting,...

ArtAttack

John Rankine - Get your crotchet on and head this Saturday to Basin Park. Gina Gallina, who has already teased us with the crocheted...

The Coffee Table

Nix Expectations When my children were little, my absolute favorite day of the year was Mother’s Day. We lived in Louisiana then, just a bit north of...

The CoffeeTable

Capitol ideas I first visited the US Capitol in August 1968. My late Aunt Marjorie, divorced and childless, paid for one niece or nephew to...

ISawArkansas

When religions are one (or none) and spirituality is top shelf, when disease and fear are non-existent, when humans don’t wear masks or criticize...

Stop taking what you’ve been taking

One of the great reasons for moving to Northwest Arkansas is the undeniable feeling of being closer to nature. You don’t even have to...

ArtAttack

It’s the 30th anniversary of the Eureka Springs May Festival of the Arts and the city, artists and private individuals are stepping up. Unlike...

Free Parking

Measles, Facebook and Russia seem like non-sequiturs that shouldn’t be grouped in the same sentence; but horrifying enough, they all belong together. According to the...