Messy House

I asked the Lord to tell me Why my house is such a mess. He asked if I'd been 'com­put­er­ing', And I had to answer 'yes.' He told me to get off my fanny, And tidy up the house.

And so I started clean­ing up… The smudges off my mouse. I wiped and shined the top­side. That really did the […]

Prayer Breakfast

February 10, 2010
9 a.m. till ?
Solid Rock Grill on Hwy 178 W, in LakeviewBreakfast will be served.Donations accepted.
Bring your prayer requests and con­cerns. Everyone is wel­come. Christian but all denom­i­na­tions welcome.This is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ity to con­nect with oth­ers in the area. Business peo­ple and locals who care about the area. It is never to late to reach out […]

Gwen Marie and Blue Dogwood

Blue Grass music at its best! Gwen Marie and Blue Dogwood is a unique blue­grass group con­sist­ing of tal­ented musi­cians
who bring you a mix­ture of your favorite blue­grass and gospel­grass music, as well as their won­der­ful sense of humor which comes forth in delight­ful story telling.
Friday, FEB 12, 2010
SOLID ROCK GRILL Lakeview AR 72642 5:00 p.m. […]

Dave Pittman Gets Golden Ticket From American Idol

Conway rooted for their favorite son last year on American Idol. This year our area gets to cheer for Dave Pittman from Gassville who walked away from his Dallas audi­tion with a golden ticket to con­tinue in the Los Angeles tri­als to com­pete on this sea­son of American Idol. You can see his audi­tion with some […]

New Bull Shoals Web Cams

Now you can see Bull Shoals Lake, Bull Shoals Dam and the White River 24 hours a day.
Check out the Live Streaming Video From Bull Shoals — White River State Park. Bull Shoals, AR
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Men of Peace, Men of Faith, Men of Change

Faith… must be enforced by rea­son… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
The hope of a secure and liv­able world lies with dis­ci­plined non­con­formists who are ded­i­cated to jus­tice, peace and broth­er­hood.
Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love

Lifting the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy, Those Arguments Against Sound Familiar!

I am a retired navy com­man­der. I retired in 1994 just after the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy was begun. I thought it was insuf­fi­cient then and I thought the rea­sons for tak­ing such a half-​baked (read another word there) stand was a lit­tle brass short of what it should have been. I also heard lots of rea­sons (and some of those […]

Women From All Sides Speak Their Minds From One Place

I am a mem­ber of a spe­cial com­mu­nity of women. We come from all walks of life. We are young, older, left , right, mod­er­ate, pro­gres­sive, inde­pen­dent, moth­ers, grand­moth­ers, child­less. We are over 500 in num­ber and most of us have never met. We are the women whose voices are raised in dif­fer­ing per­spec­tives but all writ­ing about polit­i­cal issues that […]

Ozarks Business Bytes

When the Beacon Editor con­tacted me sev­eral weeks ago about con­tribut­ing to the Bull Shoals Beacon I was flat­tered, but unsure if I could com­mit the time to post­ing a reg­u­lar series of arti­cles. However, after read­ing the great columns that other writ­ers are con­tribut­ing I knew that I was in good com­pany. I will try to offer some insight into what […]

Practice for the New Millennium by the Dalai Lama

1. Spend 5 min­utes at the begin­ning of each day remem­ber­ing we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all con­nected to one another.
2. Spend 5 min­utes breath­ing in, cher­ish­ing your­self; and, breath­ing out cher­ish­ing oth­ers. If you think about peo­ple you have dif­fi­culty cher­ish­ing, extend your cher­ish­ing to them […]

Book Review of The Grand Mosque of Paris

Review: The Grand Mosque of Paris by Lydia Beyoud
Yesterday at dawn, the Jews of Paris were arrested. The old, the women, and the chil­dren. In exile like our­selves, work­ers like our­selves. They are our broth­ers. Their chil­dren are like our own chil­dren. The one who encoun­ters one of his chil­dren must give that child shel­ter […]

Healthy And Cheaper Alternatives — First In A Series

This arti­cle is about some easy and budget-​friendly ways to help you make healthy eat­ing eas­ier. Some are my own inven­tions and some are my alter­na­tives to some spendy items that TV ads bom­bard us with daily.
First Topic Water
We need to drink more water. Drink those eight glasses of water a day. Easy right. Not so easy. First, lose those bot­tles […]

Heirloom Cucumbers

Heirloom Vegetables 

An heir­loom plant, seed, or veg­etable is a vari­ety that was grown dur­ing ear­lier peri­ods in his­tory, but were not grown commercially. Before the indus­tri­al­iza­tion of agri­cul­ture, a wider vari­ety of veg­eta­bles were grown for human con­sump­tion. In the mod­ern United States, only a few vari­eties of each type of crop are pro­duced for the masses.
Heirloom veg­eta­bles have kept their traits […]

I Cringe As Each Piece Of Glass Drops Into The Trash

Marion County has no option that I am aware of for recy­cling glass. Every bot­tle, jar, and other unwanted glass con­tainer goes into the trash. I have con­tain­ers of paper, plas­tic and cans that we haul to recy­cling. We used to haul it to a neigh­bor­ing county because that cen­ter accepted glass. Then we were told the cen­ter […]