Currently, there are 8.2 billion people on Mother Earth, and every single one of them, myself included, is insane. This is primarily...

I awoke from a dream on Memorial Day 2024 with the first two lines of the next paragraph in my mind and knew I had to write something. On...

Sooner or later, everything, including these flesh vehicles we call bodies, ends up in a landfill. Whether our bodies are cremated or...

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The Heights of Little Rock has long been a preferred area to live and is today considered one of the most trendy and desirable...

Human beings like labels, niches, and categories, don’t we? We like to define all things, including people.

I don't remember when I didn't makeup stories. I wasn't a liar except for a few told during childhood, but I guess it could be argued...

Karlyle Tomms - A Personal Story Yesterday my aunt was laid to rest. Cold Arkansas wind sawed at our ears as we stood beside the grave...

By Karlyle Tomms ~ "10-year-old calls 911 while trapped with Uvalde shooter as law enforcement stands outside..." Watching things unfold...

It seems like this has been a season of tragedy, both for the country and in our personal lives because many of us have also lost loved...

A Commentary on Sex, Sexual Abuse, Society, Spirituality and Sexual Orientation PREFACE: I wrote this after having some communication...

Okay, Gillette does a commercial which chastises men for bad behavior, a shadow of the “#MeToo” movement. Some men react, “I don’t need...

I labored over whether to write this for a couple of months. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what I wanted to say, or in the final edit, that...

WHITE FEAR I first wrote this in 2017, this is an updated version of the previous blog post. I was raised in the 1960s on a farm about...

By Karlyle Tomms She eloped across the county line at fourteen, lied about her age, and married a man almost twice her age. He probably...

On the day my father died, I found a black feather on my way back from lunch standing straight up in the grass as though it had been...

Moments of Peace Karlyle Tomms 7/30/16 Pinnacle Mountain stands alone along the Arkansas...

I grew up with guns. My grandpa had rifles and shotguns hanging on the walls. They were propped on ten penny nails driven just far enough...

Three words came to mind the first time I saw her –weird, strange, and goofy. She was older than the rest of us. She had a minimum of...

The eastern Ozarks of Arkansas are not quite as grand as those to the west. Here the Ozark Mountains begin to roll gradually into the...