Dropping a Line

Wade & Jacob Timmermann came up from Maumelle, Ark., to do a father and son outing Saturday while Mom enjoyed some down time in...

Hognobbing

FAYETTEVILLE – If the Razorbacks’ dominating 14-1 win over Ole Miss to punch a ticket to Omaha on Monday didn’t put the college baseball...

The Dirt on Nicky

The turmeric year One year ago, a well-intentioned, curious, daring gardener was snookered in by the glowing commentary in a famous seed catalog and ordered...

The Pursuit of Happiness

All polls, including internal polling by the Republican National Committee, show the upcoming midterm elections are a referendum on Donald Trump. It seems to...

The Nature of Eureka

Our cross cultural nature Recently I received a copy of a new book from Kew Publishing in the UK, the publishing arm of the Royal...

The Dirt on Nicky

The beet goes on Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Greek myth, and what special food did the myth-writers claim she favored to enhance...

Dropping a Line

Local angler Bruce Gronen from Lakeshore Drive off Mundell with a 17-pound striper he caught August 28 with his daughter Julianne Gronen, who booked...

The Pursuit of Happiness

I have discovered the power of thoughts and prayers and feel awfully good about it. Excited even. One of my tenants has asked for...

Diggin’ the Sang Season

In September I was in the field observing the annual harvest of wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in the Appalachians of Kentucky, West Virginia,...

ISawArkansas

One sure thing we can say about people is that we are quick to realize our mistakes. For instance, in the late 1400s seafarers found...