The Coffee Table
Holiday Meltdown
After a social gathering that usually brings me peace and joy, I had a holiday meltdown. A bona fide, unadulterated, crying jag spent...
Dropping a Line
Ha, ha! Been horsing around instead of fishing this week. Got a little cold but March and April are so close, I'm smelling fish...
Free Parking
We are not the first society with corruption so deep it threatens its very foundations. The Greeks coined the word “kakistricy” and the English...
The Nature of Eureka: Catnip Follies
By Steven Foster - When I was 20 years old I worked in the herb department of the Sabbathday Lake Maine Shaker Community, the...
The Nature of Eureka
Invasive Aliens
Since most of the leaves have dropped off the native trees, I am struck by the fact that many of woody plants (trees,...
ISawArkansas
In El Paso, the shooter used a semi-automatic Kalashnikov-style rifle with a magazine that holds 30 rounds. In Dayton, a man using an AR-style...
ISawArkansas
One hilarious thing we try to do every day is not get in our own way. Sounds easy enough, but who among us hasn’t...
American Insights
The Radical Faith
Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, they knew, was not the end but the beginning of a new...
The Coffee Table
On The News
I spent hours writing a column. It was political. Controversial. So I wanted to get it right. I checked my facts, again and again. Which led...
The Dirt on Nicky
The next thing
Before I did the next thing, I got distracted by the third thing, etc., on and on around the Mobius strip of...