ISawArkansas

Last year when people started working from home, air quality all over the planet improved because w didn’t start our cars and keep them...

The Coffee Table

Recycling realities I remember as a young child my Mama would put me in the tub for a bath and hair wash. She would use Prell Shampoo,...

The Nature of Eureka

Peony Perfection As one walks about town in the last couple of weeks, given the relatively long stretch of cool, wet weather in May, the...

The Dirt on Nicky

Plantago a go-go This discussion will be about plantain, and I don’t mean bananas. If you have been in grassy areas lately, you might have...

The Coffee Table

The Illusory Light in the Window A few months into my job at an Eastern Navajo Agency boarding school in New Mexico, my closest co-worker,...

ISawArkansas

Sweet graduation, that time when finally, after years of fulfilling state and local academic requirements, you are awarded a diploma. You have learned to...

HavingREELFun

This has been a month of celebrating birthdays. Started off first was Don McCorvey his wife, Sally, who got him a sightseeing tour for his...

The Dirt on Nicky

Chickweed in the news! “Hi. I’m that chickweed plant growing behind your cilantro. Call me Charles,” Charles said. “Many of my Stellaria relatives are already...

ISawArkansas

We know that worry is an undernourished enthusiasm and even that worries us to pieces. Who hasn’t worried in the last year? We’ve had...

The Coffee Table

Many folks know my late husband was a musician, but they might not realize he was afflicted with Musical Tourette’s.  It’s highly contagious. I caught it. I...