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Old Rocks in Hot Springs
Now that life has slowed to a meander, I'm walking around more. I take the dog on increasingly longer and longer walks. We are passing...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Apr 25, 20202 min read


A Hot Springs Miracle
A long time ago, My grandfather, Dr. Jack Stell, was a surgeon at St. Joseph's on Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs. He was a good...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Apr 10, 20202 min read


Beautiful and Quirky Love On Park Avenue
When the Corona virus broke out the search for masks was instantly on. I don't own a sewing machine, though I did sew a button on a shirt...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Apr 8, 20202 min read


West Mountain Love Story
Have you been up on West Mountain lately? It's still gorgeous. I think it's amazing that we have a beautiful camel-hump of a mountain...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Mar 12, 20202 min read


Out In The Woods...Fox Pass Pottery
For more than forty years there's been a pottery studio and home in the woods off of Fox Pass Cutoff in Hot Springs, Arkansas. There are...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Mar 4, 20202 min read


Hot Springs' Dreamers and Liars
Dear Designers, Visionaries, Builders, Decorators, Contractors and Dreamers, I want to thank each and everyone of you for looking at the old and neglected historic spaces in Hot Springs and seeing something wonderous. You see things rest of us miss. I assume you use ancient magic, vodoo and a whole lot of money to miraculously turn our abandoned lofts, cottages, sky scrapers and warehouses into brilliant historic properties. You've all been willing to tilt at wildmills, wres
Mar 201 min read


Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival...Maybe Being Human Isn't so Bad
Tonight, my husband and I went to watch the band Joy Bomb, from Memphis, at Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was just six o’clock but at least 75 folks showed up to the gorgeous Art Church on Whittington Avenue to watch Joy Bomb, a post punk, rock and roll band. It was still bright and sunny outside. but the Art Church has amazing stained glass, lovely wooden floors and great acoustics, so the vibe was perfect. When the show started
Mar 143 min read


Your Daughter has a Disgusting Boyfriend
One of the hardest things for parents is .watching their child fall in love (or at least they think they are in love) withan absolute jack wagon, with a mean, rude, disrespectful jerk. They "fall in love" with people who don't deserve them. They're literally not good enough. I've seen all my children fall in love with people so obviously wrong for them, stupid people, with no future, people who didn't respect them or the family, idiots who are obviously only interested i
Nov 24, 20253 min read
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