Here lately, my weekend blogging has been lamentable, if not all but nonexistent. This weekend has proven no exception. Most of that’s just been the fact that I haven’t been online … hard to imagine, I know, but true all the same. It all started with the Plano Rep’s production of “The Drawer Boy” on …

MH-Van Buren a mirror matchup By SONNY ELLIOTT – Bulletin Sports Editor Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the toughest with the ball? That may be the question pondered most by Mountain Home head football coach Shane Patrick and his adversary Eddie Tipton of Van Buren all week. When the Bombers (2-0) host the Pointers …

{sigh} Just when most people seem to have figured out my last name has one R and two L’s, Susanna Clarke had to go screw everything up with her new book, “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.” (Read a good Slate review.)

OK, so I got lazy and decided not to resize all the 100+ pictures from Arkansas. Instead, I uploaded them to a handy-dandy Yahoo photo album, which you can view here. I even wrote captions for the Fayetteville pictures. 🙂

Maybe part of my fascination with all things academic stems from the amazing mentors and teachers I’ve had over the years. From my English teachers in high school to faculty members at TWU with whom I have a strictly collegial/professional relationship, I’ve been incredibly blessed in my life to know many gifted and passionate instructors. …

Nomadic, drifting soul that I appear to be, and given that I’ve been in my apartment now for … golly, nearly five months! … I’m thinking about moving at the end of my lease. Of course, this once again falls during finals — the end of November. I know what you’re all thinking, and you’re …

No, this isn’t another Bomber football entry … rather, my likely-to-be biweekly check-in after attending one of our face-to-face class meetings up on campus. I know I’ve already gushed to you all about my excitement for this class, but let’s have some more, shall we? Tonight was our first real opportunity for discussion, and it …

I’ve been a bit slow in checking out the KERA online auction — a brilliant new fundraising effort by my local NPR station. Today, though, I took a gander, which lead me to a Web site from one of the auction donors, Dallas Darkroom. They offer photography classes for various levels — and darkroom rental …

Long known colloquially as “Cashew Kitty” (which I understand is gross, but nicknames given in high school are rarely known for their cooth, ok?), Diamond Head is bar-none my favorite Chinese restaurant in these United States. I’ve looked everywhere I’ve lived for ten years to find a place that can match or best the crab …

Sufficient time has passed for me to come off the football-inspired high (well, mostly, anyway), so now we can move back to our regular blog-ish topics. Here’s the first thing I have to share from my Arkansas trip that’s not about football — a billboard in Mountain Home that had me sighing, shaking my head, …