This Week’s Independent Thinker
In 2015, the average new home in America was 2,466 square feet and cost an average of $300,000. Since then, mortgage rates and the...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 12 – 18, 2026
Total Solar Eclipse – Sun’s Light Hidden – an Essential Falling Away
In our last month of summer (August 2026) two eclipses (solar and...
The Coffee Table
Rabbit Roasts and Google Skin
My Pop often proclaimed it was wise to be pessimistic—because optimists are often disappointed while pessimists are sometimes pleasantly surprised. But...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 5-11, 2026
Leo – Noble, Regal, Creative, Bright Like the Sun
The sign of Leo represents the fiery life-giving Sun. Leos, like the shining Sun they represent,...
Dinner for Six
Becky Strainer Epp is a visual artist, jewelry maker and recent guest curator at Brews who lives in Eureka Springs with her husband, Erik.
How...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: A son of this great country
The speech was substantial, not ceremonial. Speaking from the Vatican on the evening of July 3—the...
The Coffee Table
Dog walking, dental hygiene, and Doctor Who?
I recently went to the dentist—for a cleaning. I’d never met the hygienist before, so I explained to her...
From the Back Porch
Books
Whenever I hear anyone speak of a “slow computer” or that “this printer takes forever” I visualize robed monks sitting before their desks with...
The Dirt on Nicky
Names of things
Did you ever wake up at 2:30 a.m. and wonder, “Wait a minute! Why do we call it a snapdragon?” Me neither,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
July 29: In 1786, the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, the Pittsburgh Gazette, was published; in 1920, the first transcontinental airmail flight took...