The Coffee Table
The Elusive Human Connection
At the supermarket, I can go to the self-checkout or a real live cashier. I always choose the latter because (a) I want...
The Reel News
Pictured is Everett from Oklahoma City, with this awesome 17-inch Rainbow trout, caught with guide Austin Kennedy with Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service.
Fishing this...
The Dirt on Nicky
Immunity is our friend
Our bodies have an elaborate tag-team immune system which instinctively protects our bodies from malevolent pathogens, and three scientists who uncovered...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week October 15-21, 2025
Libra – Contemplating Polarities, Choosing – a Turning Point
During Libra (Sun), we contemplate and assess what we know, don’t know and need to know...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
She had prosopagnosia, an early childhood neurological condition that meant she didn’t recognize faces. She relied on voice, posture, clothing style, hair length, name...
From the Back Porch
Despite the invasions of beautiful cars and noisy motorcycles (they are after all toys and we are all happy with our toys), there’s a...
Hall Closets
In order to win the game, you must first not lose it. Chuck Noll
Head coaching NC2A football on the DI level in todaze arena...
The Coffee Table
City Wildlife
When I was preparing to move away from my rural Arkansas paradise, I had misgivings about giving up my elevated blind in the woods. Out...
American Insights
The Dilemma of Progress
It was an unusually warm day in the nation’s capital when on Thursday, December 13, 1923, Calvin Coolidge’s White House welcomed...
The Dirt on Nicky
Living with maypops
At first it was a bright green three-lobed leaf that emerged in the spring of last year. Whazzit? My phone told me...