The pink and red of Valentine’s Day always reminds me that spring is in the air and it’s time to start spring cleaning. With this feeling, I start longing to bring an air of sunshine...

Kevin Jones, thirty-eight, sits at Sweet Bay Coffee Shop by Creekmore Park in Fort Smith. It’s a place I’ve been probably a hundred times, and today seems like any other. But then Kevin says...

Calico County’s Lance LaRoche was fast asleep in the wee hours of November 26, 2012. In the days prior, he’d been commiserating with his business partner, Scott Blair, about the coming rush...

It’s likely most of you are just like us, feeling withdrawal because Calico County in Fort Smith is temporarily closed, due to a fire that happened in November of last year...

To get to know twenty-year-old Ivy Jo Young, you have to go back to the autumn of 2011. For years she’d been struggling with her weight. Even looking at her high school graduation photos...

Jerry Glidewell taps the keys briskly on his computer in his office where he is ending a busy day of work as Executive Director of the Fort Smith Boys and Girls Clubs. Right now it’s that tapping that he hears as he juggles fundraising, public relations, and

The drive to Eureka Springs zigzags across steep hills, through lush valleys, and a countryside filled with oak, maple, cedar, and pine. At the end of the journey sits the town of 2,300, where...

It was a two-seater, the outhouse in which Annie was now fervently praying, a convenience when there are six kids in the family and the little ones are afraid to go by themselves at night...

John sat against the cold concrete of his cramped gray jail cell. How has it come to this, he wondered. He’d been a decent kid. He minded his mom and tried to think before he acted...

Tangerine sunsets/and cicada symphonies/end the days as we sprawl/upon the brittle lawn,/legs and arms splayed wide/to catch a wayward breeze...