Ranging from near-memoir to considerations of local news.
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, June 2, 2005: My wife and I have yet another similar thought process. She doesn’t see it that way. I just now did. I brown-bag to work for three reasons. The least is cost. The middle is that fast food all tastes alike after not too many weeks, including […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, May 20, 2005. Condensed from Fayetteville’s Northwest Arkansas Times this morning (or read whole article): “Mayor Dan Coody wants attendees of Bikes, Blues and BBQ to ride quietly, a sentiment shared by the festival’s board of directors. ‘We encourage everyone to be quiet,’ said Richard Watson, chairman of the […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, May 14, 2005: Note to self: There’s many ways to meditate, necessary when working an evening shift but want to enjoy the daytimes then need to re-fresh before going in: Meditation is first, because there it is. A 20-45 minute nap accomplishes about the same thing. Sleep experts say […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 11, 2005: Morning after a local millage election. The Fayetteville Public Schools lost its request for a property tax increase of 43 mills. This is one Arkansas town that doesn’t hate tax increases. What was wrong with this one? The things this one would fund were thoroughly discussed […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, January 28, 2005: Recalling a dream is not where I want to go with Brick. But what the heck. It’s a Brick. It doesn’t go anywhere until heaved. That’s Krazy Kat’s downfall, he realizes just as he sees one heading toward him from Ignatz Mouse, too late to duck. […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The new library building has been open only since the ninth, and I’ve been there three or four times a week since. Each time I intend to camp at a desk with a legal pad and some books yet never have. Except for the grand opening […]