http://www.aymag.com/view/100 The View YWP 13.00.04 http://www.aymag.com/view/483 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/465 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/449 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/433 If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. Mark Twain Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/412 My friend Jim lives in a downtown Little Rock condo. Like me, he’s a country boy at heart, but loves cities. Sat, 01 May 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/386 I’m sitting next to a picture window overlooking a Stone County valley. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/315 Whew, where did the time go? Not just 2009 but the first decade of the 21st century. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/368 I’ve been walking a lot lately. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/339 Since it’s February, this is a love letter. Not to a person, but a place and some of the things that make it special. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/294 Here’s hoping you can find time to curl up with a good movie this holiday season, and remember that it truly is a wonderful life. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/257 Tired of classless acts? We’ve seen so many of them lately it’s hard to know where to start. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/228 Back in the early 1990S, shortly after Mississippi allowed casino gambling, Julie and I ventured into our first gambling hall. It was an autumn Saturday afternoon in Biloxi, and it was the best time we ever had in a casino. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/195 Last spring I had the opportunity to hear Roy Reed, a longtime journalist and educator, read from Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History, which had just been released by the University of Arkansas Press. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/184 Shortly after Michael Jackson died, a friend of mine posted a message on Facebook that she couldn’t get the singer’s music out of her head. I suggested she let a little fractured syntax from “I’ll Be There” run through her brain for a while. Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:23:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/155 A long time ago, I wrote a newspaper article about a journal a priest had discovered in a Morrilton church. The journal, written in Latin, had been kept by an early missionary in the Arkansas River Valley. One amusing entry the priest interpreted for me, freely translated, described Arkansas in summer as a “suburb of hell.” Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/139 A friend of mine, who’s jogged, biked, hiked and done just about everything that involves strenuous exercise, once said something that surprised me. Athletes, she said, are the unhealthiest people around. Always hurting themselves. Especially the, well, mature ones. Walking with a limp or hobbling around on crutches. Braces on elbows and knees. Popping ibuprofen as if the tablets were M&M’s. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.aymag.com/view/115 As a salute to Mother’s Day, I’d like to recommend that you, dear reader, check out Thomas Friedman’s latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It’s the most eye-opening and troubling book I have read in a while — maybe since I read Friedman’s The World Is Flat in 2005. Fri, 01 May 2009 18:23:00 GMT