Delta Dreaming

 Binary arguments plague us these days. These are situations which offer only two opposing sides or choices, often implying that if one is t...

 FACTS This week, we learned that Russia had released American hostages not through negotiations with the current administration, but becaus...

 ELECTIONS Our next election won’t rely on facts. Both extremes of the political factions denounce any facts that don’t resonate with embedd...

 WORDS A couple of things I’ve seen recently bother me. One happened yesterday when I clicked a YouTube video featuring a replay of a local ...

You kinda have to wonder what the Galilean thinks when he sees some of memes posted on Facebook. As far as anyone knows, he hasn't share...

Today I shall concentrate on considering the views of people with whom I may disagree on some major matters. I promise, at least, to regard,...

One has to worry that yesterday marked the beginning of the march to the end of the world as we know it. Maybe more accurately, maybe it mar...

One odd thing about the South always amazes me. It has to do with herpetology. Yeah, that’s the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles an...

This week I came to understand what a lucky life I’ve led in many ways. Oh, it wasn’t an exemplary one. Oh no. There are those who make that...

We showed those immigrants a thing or two, Brenda and I. Showed them their place good and hard. Here’s what happened. We received a ca...

When I left you yesterday, it was February 17, 1980, a wintery day in Little Rock. There were clear skies, and the chilly temperature was pe...

Headed far up into North Arkansas today to earn a bit of money. Yeah, I'll have a bit of a Chicagoan accent when I return. Saw a funny ...

More on the Sermon on the Mount . Some writer I read once said that the Galilean was almost breathless on that barren mountain. Whoever it ...

A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I never thought it would at my age. Took me by surprise it did. What was it? I fell in love. Blindsi...

  A great tragedy has befallen our state and it must trouble any thinking person. It occurs at a time when the powers that govern us believe...

Just what we needed: more rain. It happens I suppose. It sure happened in 1927. I’ve heard old-timers say that flooding was what made the A...

Fiction Friday: Only a slightly fictionalized account of something that happened to me years ago. The Assignment By Jimmie von Tungeln...

One of the things I’ve noticed about urban problems is the immediate tendency to blame someone or some individual group for them. While stud...

Theology Time: Still stuck on the Beatitudes I am. I suppose it’s because they suffer these days from being so “bigly” ignored. I can’t tu...

Last night I dreamed the strangest thing. I was helping a city with some administrative work associated with planning when a man brought his...