It's dirty. It's usually fairly shallow. You won't get much worthwhile fishing done in it without resorting to illegal methods. But in a pinch, it's actually a fairly decent recreational resource. Though the portion of it that passes through our fair city is about the size of a urine stream compared to many, more formidable rivers, I figure if we're going to make a point of mispronouncing its name (“Ar-Kansas”. I bet you're guilty of pronouncing it that way at least once in your life), why not take the time to enjoy it?

It was a strange week last week.  Lots of it was related to “health” issues and the word just seemed to surround me constantly.  First of all I had my annual physical and two physicians and lots of techs “thought” there could be something wrong and did more tests only to come up with a “clean bill of health” so that started this thought process.

If you were told that you had 4 minutes to save the world... What would you do?