Author: Sonny Rhodes

Final Thought

Many mornings for the past year and a half have been an adventure. These mornings often fill me with optimism, and since 2016 is a-dawning I thought I might share some of the things that make me want to look on the bright side of life.   pegged the time element to the past 18 […]

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Final Thought

Invariably, about this time of year I start thinking about gift giving. What? You say we only have HOW MANY DAYS until Christmas?   must admit that shopping gives me the heebie-jeebies. Call me gift-idea challenged. For instance, there was the time I gave someone special a backscratcher for her birthday. Now, this was not […]

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Historical Gems: Little Rock’s Junior Rose Bowl Champions

Ask Arkansas sports fans to name the state’s first national championship football team and chances are very good they’ll say the 1964 University of Arkansas Razorbacks. Photography by Sara Edwards Neal and courtesy of UALR Alumni association   15 years before the Razorbacks were named the top team in the country, there was another national […]

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Final Thought

Two extraordinary people, Dean Duncan and Martha Johnson, died this year. He was a mentor. She was my mother-in-law. Few have had as much impact on my life as these two, and since Thanksgiving is coming up I thought I would offer a few words to express how grateful I am to have had the […]

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