FIRST THREE CHAPTERS Copyright © 2019 Karlyle Tomms All rights reserved First Edition PAGE PUBLISHING, INC. New York, NY First originally published by Page P...

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

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 I have said everyth...

Even though my father was from southern California, I was born in the butt crack of nowhere, in northern Arkansas where my mother’s family is from. I was tol...

She eloped across the county line at fourteen, lied about her age, and married a man almost twice her age. In today’s world, he probably would have been arr...

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 planted there. Having be...

Moments of Peace Karlyle Tomms 7/30/16 Pinnacle Mountain stands alone along the Arkansas River, and from the I-630...

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 ten, perhaps twenty y...

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 Mississippi delta. The...