According to the fine folks at Google, the first day of fall is now less than a week away. The autumnal equinox — that is, according to the equally fine folk at Wikipedia, one of two days each year when the plane of Earth’s equator passes directly through the sun, thus resulting in approximately equal durations of daytime and nighttime across the planet — will occur on Monday, Sept. 23...

This past Saturday, Gideon and I celebrated the marriage of two dear friends. It was a full weekend of wedding events, with the rehearsal dinner Friday night, the wedding Saturday afternoon and an after-party that night by the river. The wedding was beautiful from beginning to end. ...

They say if you go shopping with cash, you’ll spend less than you would if you were using a credit card. It has something to do with seeing the money leave your wallet versus just swiping your card and going on your merry way. Apparently spending money is different when you literally feel it slipping out of your hands...

Will you vote in the 2020 election? Our democracy is struggling right now. We are a divided country. Many people don’t care about their voice in our democracy — they don’t vote. Our freedoms come with a price — it is a duty to vote! A democracy...

At the end of the school year, Karen Johnson resigned as librarian at Eureka Springs Elementary. She’ll leave some very big shoes to fill. When I worked for Carroll County Newspapers in the late 1990s, we had the luxury of spending more time...