A day of your own
Back when I wrote food stories on a fairly regular basis (much thanks to the wonderful Irene Wassell, may she rest in peace), I did one on food holidays in a m…
Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011. She handles letters to the editor and edits columns for the Voices page, as well as proofreads the editorial and Perspective pages. Brenda also writes a weekly column that appears on Wednesdays.
Back when I wrote food stories on a fairly regular basis (much thanks to the wonderful Irene Wassell, may she rest in peace), I did one on food holidays in a m…
Every time there's a special day, week or month to celebrate, for example, the contributions of Black people, women (this is Women's History Month), or LGBTQ+ …
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." --Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
I'm horrible at formal debate, which I did for a short while in high school. While part of my brain is great--nay, obsessed--with squirreling away knowledge, i…
As we prepare for yet another icy blast this week (c'mon, my bones and joints can't take much more of this), my mind goes to fact-checking once again. I'd remi…
We're closing in on a month of Trump 2.0, and in that time, letters have picked up dramatically, taking us out of the winter doldrums. It doesn't hurt that a r…
Many know that I take a break from social media on Saturdays; I spend the day doing anything but checking Facebook, Threads or other social media platforms in …
The further along we go with the weirdness (and not the fun kind) our nation has become, the more I'm convinced that it mostly comes down to the f-word: Fear.
What do I think about the on-again, off-again TikTok ban? Meh. I never really got into the app.
In light of the large contributions made by people like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and The Washington Post/Amazon's Jeff Bezos to the inauguration fund for incomin…