The kids are climbing into our van for school drop off amidst the Southern lie of a cool 70-degree morning in early September. “By noon they’ll be sweatin’ through their…
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Arkansans are tough. We know when to lend a hand. We know how to roll up our sleeves and get the job done. We know what’s right. This is our state. These are our values. We are Arkansas Strong.
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Deconstruction of one’s fundamentalist religion is common on social media, but that doesn’t make it trendy. Trendy implies that it’s being done because it’s popular and for the “likes.” One…
When someone asks me “Are you a Christian?”, my first answer is usually some variant of “um, kind of?”, complete with a shrug of my shoulders and a rueful grin…
I grab my earbuds, pick a playlist at random, snap the royal blue leash onto Sandy the Beagle’s collar, and head out the door. Sandy needs her evening walk just…
The Shiny Happy People docuseries has taken Arkansas by storm, with details of abuse, oppression, and cult tactics having happened right in our backyard. The series focuses on the Duggar…
Head down Razorback Road on a late spring weekend in Fayetteville and you’ll see Canopy city — red and white fabric roofs, boxes of beer, a throw rug or two and…
Hope has yet again produced a public servant of whom all of Arkansas can be proud. Do our two US Senators know where Hope is? April 14, 2023, was a…
I entered 2023 intending to schedule enough time to finish the first installment in my “Myth of Me” memoir comic book series. Instead of accomplishing that work, I found myself…
Though it was 27 years ago, this story still stings and it currently reverberates on the high school football field and education landscape of Arkansas. I started on the defensive…
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