By David Rose I once got invited to a pot-luck dinner with a theme – bring a dish from your ethnic heritage. All my friends were whipping up lasagna, quiche, and potato knishes, but I was at a complete loss. My childhood recollections were useless. I fondly remember weekly encounters with Chef Boyardee, but I was quite certain we weren’t Italian. It seemed like every third meal included soup or
By David Rose What’s the story with dolphins? It’s common knowledge that they have as much brain mass as we do, maybe more. They’ve also been around for 15 million years; 75 times as long as us. Humans have only been around for 200,000 years, give or take a century or two. In that short time, we’ve raced to the front of the pack. People invented motor cars, moon shots,
By David Rose It seems counter intuitive. Young people, who have everything to live for, are daring and willing to take risks. Old people, on the other hand, who have gone to the ground game and are just running out the clock, are afraid of their own shadows. I know this because I am old people and I’m terrified. What I am most afraid of is young people. I was
By David Rose Last week my 15-year-old son asked me what the difference was between Beatniks and Hippies. Most of his questions are school related and revolve around algebraic equations, free electrons and dangling participles. Finally, here was a question I could answer. In fact, having spent time in both camps made me uniquely qualified to field this one. Being born and raised in Woodstock, NY, it was natural for
By David Rose I’m walking on a cloud. I just got a call from Rachael at Card Holder Services. She used to call me once or twice a week, and then, for no apparent reason, she stopped. I took it pretty hard. I know she was just a disembodied voice, a robo-caller programmed into a distant computer, but I believe she had feelings for me. I know I had feelings
By David Rose Football season used to end with bowl games on New Year’s Day. They were always played in sunny and warm places like Florida or Southern California. As the baby-boom generation began to show interest in the sport, things escalated. Now the football season extends all the way through January and the games are played on tundra and permafrost. At the current rate, Super Bowl Sunday and Easter
By David Rose I grow weary of the struggle. I’ve done so many tours of duty they can no longer be counted, or distinguished, one from another. We’ve been fighting since the very beginning of this conflict and I see no ending for it. Yes, Virginia, there is a war on Christmas, and we are losing it, losing it badly. There was a time when Christmas and the other holiday
By David Rose Mark Twain came into the world with Haley’s Comet. I arrived with Television. TV and I came into focus at the same time. We have both nearly come full circle now. People under 30 hardly watch television at all. It’s a dying art. Looking back over my decades of faithful service to the tube one program stands out. Winky Dink and You was light-years ahead of its
By David Rose Although it’s 30 years past, it’s still as clear as yesterday. It was the kind of thing I always thought happened to somebody else, not to me. I was immune, and then it hit me, the mid-life crisis. I’d spent my life driving down the freeway with hardly another car in sight. The traffic in the other direction was bumper-to-bumper. Surely I knew something they didn’t. Things
By David Rose This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of events that happened in 1968. I can do without it. 1968 was a bitch. The moon is in the seventh house several hours every day and Jupiter aligns with Mars once or twice a year. Despite the rosy optimism of the song, the Age of Aquarius started off bad and went downhill from there. January brought the Tet
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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
