Dropping a Line

Well, this cooler weather just makes the fishing better. We were down to 80° surface temp when Mellissa Jelks from Timbo, Ark., caught this...

The Coffee Table

Saturday morning, December 12, I found the email inviting me to the December Friends of Berryville Library meeting, and marked it on my laptop...

The Nature of Eureka

"Tastes like Wild Hickory Nuts" Waiting for last Saturday's Volkswagen Parade – that largest, longest, and most diverse of Eureka Springs parades – scheduled for...

The Pursuit of Happiness

I was a cook at the Catholic Worker House in south Minneapolis once upon a time. A girl named Jill would sometimes stay there...

The Pursuit of Happiness

A young filmmaker named Starla Larson intends to use material from a novel I wrote several years ago to make a movie taking place...

Dropping a Line

Was a chilly day but Josh Parsons from Overland Park, Kan., enjoyed a 3-day stay in Beavertown with the wife and kids. As she...

The Pursuit of Happiness

If there is a single dividing point among Americans it is how they view ideas about equality and fairness. On the surface, equality and...

Dropping a Line

Boy, it’s been a busy week. Fished the last three afternoons here at Holiday Island with one striper trip on Beaver Lake thrown in....

Dropping a Line

April the 1st and I did my first spring mowing yesterday. Wow folks, it’s spring. Went out myself for some shoreline fishing up a creek....

Free Parking

How to deal with the “toxic stress” of the current administration is on many peoples’ minds, it seems. A recent report notes that it...