Columns
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: The Enduring Experiment
On Thursday morning, November 7, 2024, New Yorkers—and general readers everywhere—who grabbed a copy of The New York Times were greeted with a front page that many had believed...
The Coffee Table
Uber Addicts on a Sinking Ship
Three years ago, I wrote a column about the Uber-rich (“How Many Zeroes in ‘Uber?”’ November 2021) wherein I explained that if you’d collected $1000 a day since Jesus Christ...
The Reel News
Beaver Tailwaters
Recent days have started with cool mornings and then warmed up to comfortable days. We have seen varied generations from Beaver Dam. The river level is staying pretty consistent this week.
Spoons continue...
The Dirt on Nicky
Who knows where the time goes?
At this point in our development, many human people are still frantically time centric. “I’ll be there in a minute.” “He’s late again.” “There’s 5.3 seconds left on the...
Hall Closets
The year was 1994, and I was a graduate assistant for the U of A golf team under head coach Bill Woodley. Turkey Day was in the rearview mirror, and I was headed to...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 18 – 25, 2025
Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah – Lights Shining in the Dark
Winter solstice occurs as the Sun enters Capricorn (Saturday, Dec. 21), sign of the midnight Sun appearing on the mountaintop. The dark half of the year...
The Dirt on Nicky
Seed catalogs vs. reality
It’s mid-December and gardeners are in the clutches – the bustle, the hustle, the holiday mayhem – of seed catalog season. Hohoho. What fantasies will capture us this year – maybe...
The Coffee Table
Fox on Box holds Stocks on Frocks
Drinking quarts of mediocre pre-dawn coffee in the lobby of a Missouri motel (so as not to wake my daughter—still asleep in our shared room), I can’t help but watch...
The Reel News
Beaver Tailwaters
This week has been good on the tailwaters, nothing drastically has changed since the last report. The Corps is still generating starting around 10 a.m., and that increases the bite in most cases.
Most of...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 11 – 17, 2024
Advent, Candles, Preparations, Mercury Direct, Full Moon Sagittarius Festival
Soon it’s Winter Solstice (Sun in Capricorn, Dec. 21), then Christmas and Hanukkah (Dec. 25), both occurring the same day! Then the new year begins...
