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Oaklawn Park Ponies...Something to Have Faith In
If you grew up in Hot Springs you will understand this post. This morning at 7:30, as I drove past Oaklawn, there were....there horses!...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Dec 4, 20202 min read


Rocky's Where the Waitresses Still Call Me Sweetie
Dear Hot Springs, I love Rocky's Corner. Their pizza is so freaking good. Chicago style of course. Their chicken wings are freakishly...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Nov 23, 20202 min read


The "Incident" on Whittington
My dad, I Granger McDaniel, was a scrawny little boy during the Great Depression in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In the early thirties he was...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Jul 16, 20202 min read


Crawdads and Caddo Indians in Gulpha Gorge
There is not a sweeter spot in Hot Springs than Gulpha Gorge, the beautiful creek and park snuggled in between Hot Springs Mountain and...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Jul 2, 20202 min read


Playground Love in Hot Springs
I wear a tiny gold elephant on a simple chain almost everyday. If you know me, you'll know this story and you have seen my elephant. This...

Diana McDaniel Hampo
Mar 22, 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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