Where to go when the heat is on

There are plenty of words to describe the blast of sunshine and humidity we encounter when walking out the door nearly every morning lately.

21.07.2025 3

Karen Martin

Reviving a tired trope about women

Here we go again. A bunch of successful, conservative professional women are telling young women they don't need careers to have fulfilling lives. All...

14.07.2025 3

Karen Martin

Dodgy moves in the dark

Most of us have morning rituals that seem odd to others.

07.07.2025 3

Karen Martin

The power behind women’s rituals

A recent WhatsApp message reminded me of a friend's fast-approaching baby shower.

30.06.2025 4

Karen Martin

Hey, show some respect—or else

Politeness does not always imply goodness, equity, obligingness and gratitude; it at least provides the appearance of these, and makes a man seem...

23.06.2025 10

Karen Martin

Side-by-side: no way to ride

When we lived in the Parkway Place neighborhood in west Little Rock, he was a common sight: an expensively geared-up, super-fit bicyclist in mirrored...

09.06.2025 3

Karen Martin

Trying to make sense of it all

NEW YORK --As I took my assigned aisle seat on a recent early-morning flight from Little Rock to New York's LaGuardia, I glanced at the passengers...

02.06.2025 3

Karen Martin

The emergency in emergency medicine

If you have been to an ER lately--or if you've watched the disturbingly accurate TV show "The Pitt"--you've seen scenes that resemble field hospitals...

26.05.2025 2

Karen Martin

Memphis’ Colossus is everyone’s problem

Build a massive supercomputer housed in a plant powered by methane gas-burning turbines that emit an undisclosed amount of pollutants into a...

26.05.2025 4

Karen Martin

Slow but steady: dog park progress

What happened to the idea of building a weather-resistant shade structure in MacArthur Unleashed, the dog park across from Little Rock's Bowen School...

26.05.2025 3

Karen Martin

The miraculous actions of Pope Francis

I am going to miss the Pope. That may sound strange coming from a non-Catholic. I never related to a Pope before. But ever since Pope Francis came...

28.04.2025 3

Karen Martin

A fast track to a new body

This has happened three times in a month: I run into a friend at Target, Kroger, or a fitness center and immediately notice they've lost weight.

28.04.2025 20

Karen Martin

Can’t you read the sign?

"And on the sign it said 'No Trespassing'But on the other side, it didn't say nothingThat side was made for you and me ..."

31.03.2025 3

Karen Martin

The extreme state of Canadian confusion

I thought they might be angry. Over the past quarter century, I've spent big chunks of time in Canada--Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly...

24.03.2025 3

Karen Martin

Advice on finding one’s way

Regarding my column of March 16 in which I describe my embarrassingly inept attempt to find my way from Little Rock's Baptist Medical Center to Fresh...

24.03.2025 2