Out in the counties, Decoration Day is a pre-Memorial Day sacrament. Families drive in from all over to tidy-up plots, to place flowers both real and otherwise, and to remember. On Saturday, I rode with my friend Melinda to Canaan Cemetery in Marshal...
Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, AR c. 1890s (Wikimedia Commons) Had a marvelous getaway this summer - shopping, knitting, scribbling, eating, ghost touring - up in the Ozark Mountains where a Very Big Outstreched Jesus looks unsmiling on all of Eure...
"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning." ~James Dickey Rain. I don't know where you live, but here in bellybutton of Arkansas it's been the broken promise of rain for two months now. Two dry months...