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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, is considerable,” Frederick Douglass told a Rochester, New York, crowd...
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 our time laughing at ourselves, each other, politics, grammar, media,...
The Coffee Table
My Economics Lesson
A few weeks back I left my sunglasses in Fayetteville—at my son’s house. I knew I’d get them back eventually, but in the meantime, the glare was making me unhappy. So I went to...
Land In Our Hands
Parallel lives colliding on White Street
Mary Springer came to Eureka Springs more than 40 years ago to start an art school. That school is her legacy, and her only wish is to live long...
The Dirt on Nicky
Alphabet soup
I came across a photo from the early days of my garden and was pleased to see how healthy the chard plants were, and my first thought was that I had regular access...
Hall Closets
With so much happening in the wide world of Arkansas Razorback athletics these daze, I thought I’d offer up a little bit of this and a little bit of that this week.
Indeed, the biggest...
The Reel News
Pictured are Joy Kennedy, her uncle Don Nash and cousin Trevor Grant from Texas filling the boat with trout!
Beaver Tailwaters
How about this weather! One day you’re basking in the sun, washing your boat...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week March 19 – 25, 2025
Mystic & Occult Powers of Spring’s Fire Initiation, Mercury & Venus Retrograde
Wednesday, March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day – mentor and spiritual type-pattern for all fathers. Thursday, March 20, the Sun enters Aries and...
The Coffee Table
The Practical Coward
While working for a federal agency in a sparsely populated state, I had an office in a defunct dormitory on the campus of a Native American boarding school. The only people to...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Who Is a Progressive?
On Wednesday, April 3, 1912, the same day in which The New York Times covered several workers’ strikes, former president Theodore Roosevelt, aiming for a return to the...
