The Pursuit of Happiness
Malcolm Moos, an Eisenhower-era moderate Republican strategist, wrote The End of the Republican Establishment in 1965, after Lyndon Johnson’s thrashing of Barry Goldwater. Moos’s...
The Dirt on Nicky
All for one…
It’s half-time for the summer garden, so the United Nations and I want to present our mid-season garden report. Yes, there were...
The Dirt on Nicky
The time has come
What I have noticed during this season of dis-ease and uncertainty is a strong undercurrent of compassion, people watching out and...
The Nature of Eureka
Bittercress — Salad Green among the Weeds
It’s challenging to walk through fields and forest this time of year and pick a bouquet of flowers....
HavingREELFun
Love is in the air, as the opening day of modern gun deer season was 11/13/21. Big day for some people in our area...
The Coffee Table
The End of Civility?
I arrive in Houston the day after a mass shooting on the city’s outskirts. Five people killed. The gunman at large. But, of...
The Pursuit of Happiness
I have been feeling a bit like John Cheever’s country husband this week, full of melancholy, out of sorts due to the rain, and...
HavingREELFun
Nothing burns like the cold, my grandpa use to tell me. It’s cold, and wind is going right through us. But there are still...
ISawArkansas
News commentators and reporters are held to a particularly high standard because what they say can have such a personal effect. They are expected...
Risa Astrology
Esoteric Astrology as news for week Oct 25 – 31, 2017
Jupiter in Scorpio - Our Heart’s Desires
Jupiter, the Truth Teller (ruler of Sag) has...