Ranging from near-memoir to considerations of local news.
I miss smoking. Yes, quit pipes and the occasional cigarette or cigar 22 years ago. Don’t mean miss my own smoking. I do miss how smoking helped the dexterity of nearly everyone — that is, people who smoked, which was nearly everyone. That was not obvious until a few weeks ago. My office moved from […]
My memory foam pillow remembers everything. It sees too much. Maybe my sleep has been less sound recently, and maybe it’s the pillow’s fault. That’s what I thought when I read an article on bed pillows filled with buckwheat hulls, instead of closed-cell foam, feathers and polyester fluff. Before the special foam pillow bought over […]
One more “A” and NAN would be tasty flatbread. As it is, it’s Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC, and the acronym was created, logo’d up, and announced by the new company. One suspects that was to delay unhappy people creating a snide abbreviation or nickname, as happened when the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was formed in 1991 (my […]
(Yes, Eudora, there is a great short story titled “Why I Live at the P.O.”) During the boom economy, canned food drives always seemed odd to me. When a supermarket had a barrel near the door for customers to place an extra food staple for the poor, I would not comply. It was so blatant […]
Can’t blame the dog. I refuse to blame myself. If it weren’t for bashful kidneys I’d start whizzing on their yards myself. It’s this letter we received last week. Here is the letter. The main thing that gripes me is that this constitutes the first notice. There was neither a knock on the door by […]
Is this week’s garden visitor malicious or just curious? The greensward of our manse, Shady Hill, is pleased to house four, no, five beds this spring. The back yard has two for vegetables and one for herbs. The herb bed has one thriving, 6-foot tall asparagus, and we hope she’s pregnant. Next year I’ll move […]