The Coffee Table
Pop and the Pope
After I explained to a new friend that I grew up without religion—hence it’s not really a part of my life—she asked, “So...
The Reel News
Catch of a lifetime
On Tuesday evening, April 7, 2026, 12-year-old local angler Lucas Di Giulio experienced what many fishermen spend a lifetime chasing —...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week April 22-28, 2026
Uranus Enters Gemini – Shock & Awe
The big news this month is the final entrance of Uranus into the air sign of Gemini (communication,...
So Long, Old Friend
My friend Virginia. We did hard time together in the Eureka Springs city jail. She had just been sentenced to serve the jail time...
Dinner for Six
If there is a lost soul out there, they are almost assured to find Kim Hornyak – the ECHO thrift shop queen with the...
The Coffee Table
Dinner for… Fifteen?
I love reading John Rankine’s Dinner for Six. And given that I no longer frequent Eureka’s living room—or any other Carroll County...
From the Back Porch
At four years old I saw my first movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from front row center at the Rialto theater in...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Chrsitina Hammock Koch, woke up last Wednesday morning and...
The Dirt on Nicky
‘Tis the dawning of the age of asparagus
In late March, the gardener was transplanting plants he knowingly started way too early because he does...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week April 8 – 14, 2026
Training of Disciples & the Re-opening of the Mystery Schools
The story these past 40+ days has been about the World Teacher appearing 2,000 years...