The Nature of Eureka: Invasion of the webworms
The fall webworm, or tentworm, is particularly evident this year, which given its abundance, consider it an outbreak. Not to worry. The webbed nests...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Are you a good person?
Please, if you will, pardon my impertinence. And rest assured I don’t expect an answer; the question is for you...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Local heroine Marsha Havens shared a photograph of artist Bob Holloway’s hillside painting of Eureka Springs last week, and mused, “I’ve been thinking about...
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,...
The Pursuit of Happiness
People understand the world based on a “theoretical frame of reference” shaped by their life experiences and circumstances. These frames of reference are inherently...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren called the head Cherokee over in Oklahoma last week to apologize for releasing a DNA test that conclusively proved she...
Dropping a Line
Tony Crain from Niotaze, Kansas, came this way this week with one thing in mind, and that was for his daughter Debi Crain, also...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Presidential historians agree the Obama Administration was necessarily focused on fixing the heartbreaking, recession-making mistakes of Bill Clinton’s domestic policies and, secondarily, dealing with...
Dropping a Line
Well, it seems this cold weather caused my Sunday striper trip to cancel out and it blew in on my Friday trip here at...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Older brothers have been known to cuff their younger brothers around from time to time. They do not, however, routinely grant that license to...