The Springs Nov. 2013 Cover. By David RoseArkansas is a national leader in solar snow removal. For the most part, we just leave it there until it melts. All in all, a very civilized way to handle such events. Just as snowplows in the north sometimes break down, our system has its occasional failings as well. One time we had a foot of snow followed by a prolonged cold spell.
Is this a vegetable side dish or dessert? By David RoseThanksgiving got outflanked by Christmas. The Yuletide armies raced across the open ground between Thanksgiving and Halloween like Mongol hordes across the Asian steppes. Christmas is now laying siege to Halloween which is hunkered down behind ramparts of rotting pumpkins and moldering hay bales reinforced with the bones of plastic skeletons. Thanksgiving has been left behind the lines, struggling to
A baptismal at the UU Church was recently unearthed. By David RoseNo one would ever confuse the Unitarian Universalist Church out on Spring Street with a mega-church. Our congregation is small and our church building is second-hand. Recently, while moving the piano, the corner of a rug flipped back to reveal a rusted hinge and what appeared to be the edge of a panel. Excitement ran high as we moved
By David RoseAs you may know, I attend the Unitarian Universalist Church out on Spring Street here in Hot Springs. We don’t have a preacher; we all just take turns. A woman recently took to the podium to talk about those faceless people in our lives. Waiters, shelf stockers, cashiers; the people who stood by us during the pandemic. “We should not forget them now,” she said. “Give them a
“David Malcolm Rose: The Lost Highway” is a collection of miniature scale models of businesses that represent a trip down memory lane in exquisite detail. Editors Note: David Malcolm Rose: The Lost Highway – a unique collection of miniature scale models of businesses – has found a home at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, 1601 Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, AR, from September 24, 2021, through January 30, 2022. It’s well worth
By David Rose I might lose my senior discount for this, but kids today have it tougher than we did when I was a teenager. It’s the sacred duty of every generation to adopt fashion and behavior designed to make the previous generation want to chew carpet tacks. For us it was easy. The generation Boomers had to rattle was as square as any this side of Plymouth Rock. It’s
By David Rose Even in the Texas panhandle, where the topography is as topography-free as any place on earth, the railroad tracks are not straight. They bend into the distance and the dust, disappearing beneath the curvature of the earth. Like Texas railroad tracks, time does not follow a straight line, it curves as well. Einstein proved this theory. It raises the possibility that traveling far enough into the future,
By David Rose I am waxing cosmic of late. It must be the approach of the new year, the new decade. It releases my mind from the constraints of time and frees it to wander even more than the norm. Thinking ahead toward what might yet be, thinking back to what could have been. Today is thinking back day. Second grade, that was the turning point. I’m pretty sure it
By David Rose Not hydroelectric or geothermal? Limited, unless you live at the bottom of Niagara Falls or in Iceland. Not oil? Along with grease, tar and other petroleum products, oil does not come out of clothing in a normal wash. I don’t believe it has much of a future for that reason. Not coal? Even dirtier than oil. There’s a reason naughty kids get coal in their stocking. Not
By David Rose I know I make it look easy, but it isn’t. I’m talking, of course, about sloth. One by one my friends are retiring from their life’s work and attempting the transition to retirement. Many find it is not the walk-in-the-park they though it would be. In fact, three out of every five retirements fail in the first two years.* I try to mentor them because I feel
By David Rose As of late, I’ve been watching a lot of movies with my boys – DC, Marvel, Avengers, Guardians. These are all action movies. They start with a bang and then it’s bang, bang, bang, bang, all the way to the end. Suspense is a lost art. I went to the library and got some old movies – Moby Dick, Jaws, Psycho – that were built around suspense.
By David Rose In my youth I pondered my future. I was almost certain that fame and fortune lay ahead for me, but did I have a fallback position on the outside chance that it did not? I did not. And then one day, in 1986, I picked up the paper and found my answer. David Crosby – he of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and sometimes Y – had been caught
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(L to R) Johnette Connelly Taylor, niece of “Killer Wife” first victim, Joe Connelly; Evaline Rowland Connelly (no relation to Johnette), sister of the third victim, Don Rowland; and Bitty Martin, author. Bitty Martin has completed her second Hot Springs true crime, Killer Wife: The True Story of Bonnie Connelly and the Men
By Chana Prince Greetings Fellow Travelers, March 2026 carries powerful turning-point energy. The Total Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo on March 3 brings emotional insight and practical clarity. Virgo asks for refinement—health, habits, work, and daily devotion come into focus. What feels messy now is ready to be organized with
Thousands of plants will be for sale at the Garden Show. Save the date – Garland County Master Gardeners will be holding their annual Plant Sale and Garden Show one day only on Saturday, April 25, from 9 AM to 4 PM at the Garland County Fairgrounds. Entry is free
by Susan Koenig Springs around the corner.Our excitement builds. Our need to dig in the dirt will soon be fulfilled. We’re planning our gardens and shopping seed catalogs. We’re preparing our pots and watching video blogs. We’re dreaming of the garden and buying seeds and plants, And figuring how to get rid of the squash bugs and ants! The sun’s rays
