A Lifeline to the World

A Lifeline to the World

[title subtitle=”WORDS and IMAGES Dwain Hebda”][/title] The elderly woman shifts in her chair and looks out the window. The room in which she finds herself at the long-term care community where she lives is quiet and small, some days suffocatingly so. She...
Take and Eat

Take and Eat

[title subtitle=”WORDS and IMAGES Dwain Hebda”][/title] On a brilliant clear day, two trailers arrived at Fort Smith’s Gorman Towers, swollen with food. Volunteers moved swiftly to unload the plunder – apportioned bags of meat, cheese, gallons of milk. In...
December Book Recommendations

December Book Recommendations

[title subtitle=”WORDS Sara Putman, owner Bookish “][/title] Enjoy these five must-read books from our friends at Bookish, Fort Smith, Arkansas’s only independently-owned bookstore. Shop hours: Monday 11am-4pm, Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday...
Sail Away with Southern Charm

Sail Away with Southern Charm

[title subtitle=”WORDS Elizabeth King IMAGES courtesy Sourthern Charm”][/title] On October 27, 2020, Kevin and Elizabeth King set sail with friends to move their sailing vessel Southern Charm from South Carolina to St Thomas, Virgin Islands. What follows...
Songs We Remember – Part I

Songs We Remember – Part I

[title subtitle=”WORDS Liesel Schmidt IMAGE ssuaphotos/Shutterstock”][/title] Part I I’ve always thought it amazing how music can conjure a memory from the recesses of your brain, reminding you of one very specific moment in time, whether that moment...

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