Category Archives: Stories

On Sunday afternoon, two birding friends found Red Crossbills in a pine plantation in White County, Arkansas. This was news. Crossbills are rare in Arkansas, and can be difficult to find even where they aren’t rare. I’ve seen them once … Continue reading →

My wife and I went out for lunch today, as we often do. Our destination was Smokin’ Buns BBQ in Jacksonville, Arkansas — forty-five minutes east of our house. It happened to be Valentine’s Day, but that wasn’t the reason … Continue reading →

Ever since my daughter and son-in-law moved to Germany in the summer of 2016, we’ve been planning a trip to visit them. Finally our plans worked out. We left at 6:30 am Mountain Time on a Wednesday morning. We parked … Continue reading →

It began a little over a week ago with an on-again-off-again niggling pain in the tooth nearest the gap created when I had my wisdom tooth pulled in October. I thought nothing of it — those type of small discomforts … Continue reading →

I’m developing a theory. It goes like this — you can tell how interested someone is in buying your house by seeing how far they walk into the bedrooms. But I’m getting ahead of myself. We decided to put our … Continue reading →