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Dinner for Six
How did you arrive in Eureka Springs?
Sight unseen. I’d never set foot in Arkansas. A friend mentioned Eureka Springs might be a good landing pad after my divorce, and that night I had...
American Insights
Tribute to Gordon Wood
It was an ordinary afternoon when I decided to do something few teenagers probably do. I picked up a copy of Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution and resolved...
The Dirt on Nicky
We know what we know until we don’t
Thousands of years ago, folks just like us – naturally curious scientists – experimented with uses for flora because that’s what scientists do. One of us with...
From the Back Porch
The Return, by Libyan poet and memoirist Hisham Mater, is a clear painful description of a son’s search for his father who was disappeared by the Qaddafi dictatorship. Shocked at how little I know...
The Coffee Table
Soft-Hearted Weirdo
I believe I’m the outlier. The soft-hearted weirdo. But I have trouble with people attaching shock collars to their dogs. (Or any other living thing.)
I’ve actually had trouble with collars of any kind, because...
The Reel News
Pictured is Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Jim Epperso, with these very nice crappie.
Did you know that Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service has a brand-new website? Be sure to visit buschmountainfishing.net for fishing information and...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week June 17 – 23, 2026
Bright Light of Summer on Father’s Day
Summer 2026 begins this year early morning June 21, when the Sun enters the sign of Cancer, the Fourth Gate (task) opening for Hercules (Capture of the...
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....
