HavingREELFun

Fishing is great everywhere you just have to get out there. Weather is shaping up nicely, hoping that Wednesday will be the same. There is...

The Nature of Eureka

Contrasting nature Nature is contrast. Less than two weeks ago, we were at –12°F, cold-to-the-bone with bleak, beautiful powdery snow, so cold, so dry, it...

HavingREELFun

I must share this story with you. Levi tells us… Let me begin the story by saying that I started out as a non-fisherman. My father...

HavingREELFun

Don`t let this cooler weather scare you off. “Never bad weather, just bad clothing,” an outfitter told me long years ago. Stripers are fair/good depending on...

ISawArkansas

When Bill Clinton was president, AR-15-style assault rifles were banned in the United States. The 10-year ban was only for weapons manufactured after the...

The Nature of Eureka

Poison Hemlock A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me a link to a newspaper report about an unfortunate individual in Ohio who, to...

ISawArkansas

Seems like we had a recent huddle about miscommunication in texting and guess what? Failure-to-communicate happens in regular old phone conversations! Who knew? Not hearing...

HavingREELFun

The Beaver Lake Tailwater-White River was created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed building Beaver Dam in1966. Water flowing from the base of the...

The Coffee Table

The Perplexity of “Null & Void” My late husband Kirk and I spent a dozen years working in Native American schools in New Mexico. We lived in...

The Coffee Table

Who Defines Morality? I recently read in a national newspaper that our illustrious governor is (again) badmouthing her constituents. She said abortion rights advocates in our...