The morning’s hunt in the Ozark National Forest had ended with four fat gray squirrels riding home in my truck. As I...

The blue jay’s soft, bell-like call sounded like it was saying “look, look.” So I did. As my eyes scanned the tangle...

We were turning over the soil in our new garden bed when we hit black dirt. In a garden full of heavy, red clay, even...

“I got to thinkin’ how there was the moon an’ the stars an’ the hills an’ there was me lookin’ at em, an’ we wasn’t...

I can’t imagine this time of year without trick-or-treating, corn mazes or pumpkin patches. But thanks to COVID-19,...

I often think of myself as Bilbo Baggins from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and Russellville as The Shire. In...

When Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson told the press we might not get football in the fall if people didn’t take masks seriously, I swear I saw twice as many cloth masks that day. It’s enough to […]

Several weeks before a Minnesota police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for eight minutes and forty-six...

I had seen a few snakes in my early years, but my first real introduction to a serpent came at 6 years of age and was...

Faint streaks of pink already stretch over the mountains. I’d lingered over that second cup of coffee too long. I...

We got our first laying hens for a couple of reasons: free-range chicken eggs taste way better than store bought (it’s...