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

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

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...

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

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...

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 plan...

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

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 t...

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 Mi...