American Insights
A Better America
On Sunday, April 4, 1954, Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at the pulpit of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and...
The Coffee Table
There’s Someplace Like Home
On yet another trip to Michigan, I find myself in an Air B&B that makes me cry. Not because it’s awful—quite the...
Land in our Hands
‘Heal the Waters’ is a timeless effort
Don Matt and Scott Thompson have been harmonizing together for more than 45 years. “We made our own...
The Dirt on Nicky
One thing, then another
In his book Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway describes the typical sequence in which plants transform a cleared area into scrubby grasslands,...
Hall Closets
Two down – four to go
Despite a poor attempt by referees officiating without bias on Saturday afternoon in Rhode Island, the underdog Arkansas Razorbacks...
The Reel News
Pictured above are me (center), Robert Kennedy (left) and Sky Haack at the Best of NWA Gala, winning the Gold award for best Fishing...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Evan Kail owns a Minneapolis pawnshop. He’s 35, a social media influencer, has an interest in history, a bachelor’s degree in Japanese studies, and...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week March 26 – April 1, 2025
A Generational Change Begins – Neptune enters Aries
In these past weeks we have had transits in the sky that may have made humanity...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Frederick Douglass’s Rebuke
“The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped,...
ISawArkansas
It’s been some years since I’d seen my brother, Mike, and he blew into town recently for a 3-night visit. We spent most of...