Where Hope Lives

Where Hope Lives

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:courtesy Riverview Hope Campus”][/title] On any given night in Fort Smith, Arkansas, as many as 100 of our neighbors won’t have a bed to call their own. They sleep on the streets, behind dumpsters, in tents...
Just Breathe

Just Breathe

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:Marla Cantrell and Lowell Therapeutic Massage Center”][/title] On a mild summer day, just after a clutch of storms had moved through the area, I drove to Lowell, Arkansas to spend about an hour sitting in a...
The Summertime Hues

The Summertime Hues

[title subtitle=”words: Tonya McCoy images: Marla Cantrell”][/title] “Shhh-shh, shhh-shh.” That’s the sound Dominique Palucis’ mom hears when her daughter’s pencil touches canvas. Dominique, who goes by Nikki, is twelve years old and her age surprises...
Into the Water

Into the Water

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Paula Hawkins | Riverhead Books, 386 pages | $28 After reading Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train, the runaway hit that sold 20 million copies in 2015 and was made into a movie the following year, I was...

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