Columns
Dinner for Six
Mason Cox is a high school teacher, construction guy, vinyl enthusiast and all out nerd.
How did you get to Eureka Springs?
In my Toyota Camry in 2013. I wanted to be close to my...
From the Back Porch
Throughout the country these late spring days come sounds of discomfort and confusion. From Exxon stations to Kroger Foods to Walmart, the anguished questions: “Why is this happening? What can I do about it?”
Because...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: The Arsenal of Democracy
On the last Sunday night of December 1940, Franklin Roosevelt sat before a radio microphone in the White House and told the American people the truth.
France had fallen....
The Dirt on Nicky
Plant hunters
Back when we made long treks from Asia to the Fertile Crescent without GPS or Rand-McNally atlases, we got hungry along the way, so we learned about local food plants. On our way...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We probably all know a fisherman and we probably all know an artist. But how many people are both?
The Japanese were early birds in figuring out how to document their worthy catches. (No iPhones...
The Coffee Table
The Profitability of Radical Kindness
I’ve been encountering “nonprofit” organizations that make me bristle. Like the one that will charge me to dump my kitchen scraps into a communal bin, and then, after a time, sell...
The Reel News
Pictured is Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Austin Kennedy with this very nice Beaver Lake smallmouth bass.
The Beaver tailwaters have continued to produce good fishing this week, but conditions across the system have definitely been...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week June 3 – 9, 2026
Sunbeams, Light Beams, the Light of Interplay – Gemini
We remain under the light of Gemini. Gemini’s Light is the “light of interplay.” Gemini is a line of light or sunbeams. They reveal to...
The Coffee Table
Bat Mitzvah and Jam
I recently attended my adult daughter’s bat mitzvah via Zoom. Generally speaking, religious ceremonies don’t resonate with me. And when much of the service is in a language other than...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week May 26 – June 2, 2026
Gemini Festival of Humanity – World Invocation Day & the Esoteric Equation for Peace
The third Spring Festival, the Gemini solar festival at the full moon (timing mechanism), occurs this Sunday, May 31, 2026. The...
