Ranging from near-memoir to considerations of local news.
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2005. How about cutting off a nose to spite your face? Worried residents along Rockwood Trail are being short-term not farsighted. The North Sequoyah Neighborhood Association opposes, to the extreme of buying a full-page ad in today’s Northwest Arkansas Times of Fayetteville, a strict conditional use permit allowing Temple Shalom to convert […]
The Pollocks are always greener on the other side Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, November 13, 2005. Among the better-known people to whom I’m not related: Ben Pollock, the big band leader of the 1920s and ’30s, no connection Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist painter, no connection Sydney Pollack, the movie director and occasional […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, November 12, 2005. Two observations from a luncheon. OK, two and a half. This is long; sorry. It’d make a dandy underpinning of a story or play, and be clearer, but it’s taken me a lot of years for one hour today to merge these thoughts into an informal […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, November 7, 2005. Now I can understanding the irritating habit of young brides to have everything “perfect” on their wedding day, the heck with the confused groom and the beleaguered parents. Birthdays are like that. At least for me, every year I want my birthday to be perfect, a […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005: My Oak “How tall you want it?” “There’s a choice on the tree stump?” “Sure, put a plant there.” After a day of thuds, They’ve cleared the boughs: They’re rotten. The trunk’s thud thundered. Long after the cuts And the oak rolled off, who knew Death’s […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Dragging books through the mud Friday, Sept. 16, 2005: I have not written a Brick for more than week because the two subjects I wanted to hit seemed overdone. What could I write about Katrina? Nothing particularly valuable, though I will return to it. Also, I’ve heard from all sides […]