Today’s resolution, by Simone: Let go of the need to understand

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• Holy Sews: Tiny layettes comfort grieving parents of stillborn children

   “I sewed and I cried and I sewed and I cried” — Regina Binz BY RHONDA OWEN     On the day after Thanksgiving in 2008, Regina Binz and a friend visited hospitals in Northwest Arkansas to offer them something she wished she’d had the year before, when her son, whom she named Ryan Henry, died […]

• A fine edge

  Some of the finest knife-sharpening rock is found in the Ouachitas By Rhonda Owen     PEARCY — My father always said that a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one because the extra pressure needed to cut something with a knife that has lost its edge increases the chances of the blade slipping. So […]

• Serenity in motion

  Last weekend, my boyfriend and I spent an evening at a couple of casinos at Tunica, Miss. I’ve never been a fan of casinos — the energy is wrong. Tension that pierces the nerves like glass needles, over-the-top emotions, desperation, despair … that even more than the gloomy haze of cigarette smoke tightens my chest […]

• Do you believe in magic?

  I wish I still believed in Santa. When I was a child, I barely slept on Christmas Eve, which made it difficult for my parents to get all the presents under the tree without me knowing they, not Santa, were the gift-bringers. After fighting sleep for hours, my excitement growing with each little real or […]

• Today’s resolution, from Simone: Expect treats, but watch the hand that feeds you

  Ever the optimist, Simone shares these words from I Ching 25, Innocence (The Unexpected): “Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any […]