August 28, 2025
1. Old Dog, New Tricks
I was seventeen years of age during the Summer of Love—that's 1967 for the ignorant among you—and I had just dropped out of East Norton High School before the s.o.b.s kicked me out...
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August 21, 2025
2. A Hell of a Conundrum
Robin Fields ponders the mystery of choice and is led to write his own Ozarks folktale
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August 14, 2025
3. Spanish Gold
No matter how accurate the map, there's always a cyclone. Always...
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August 7, 2025
4. The Tale of Elbie Squires
Sometimes fake treasure leads to real discovery, and real discovery leads to real trouble
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July 31, 2025
5. "Grits and Biscuits, Boys!"
"A girl's gotta have some fun!"
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July 24, 2025
6. The Decline and Fall of Aunt Prim
Sometimes Hollywood changes more than just your address
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July 17, 2025
7. A Meditation on Aunt Prim
After witnessing Aunt Prim's spectacular fall from grace, I found myself pondering the nature of propriety and the price we pay for respectability...
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July 10, 2025
8. The Ontology of Sex
In all my years of theological questioning, nothing has caused more trouble than trying to figure out what the Almighty had in mind when He invented desire...
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July 3, 2025
9. Blue's Balls
Another Ozarks Folktale by Otis Bulfinch
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July 10, 2025
10. Pursuing Daisy Garfield: The Hummingbird Express
Killing a fella can make you go off the rails
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July 17, 2025
11. A Second Baptism? Part 1
What happened to me on the Wakarusa River
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July 25, 2025
12. A Second Baptism? Part 2
Why must everything be so damned hard?
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August 3, 2025
13. A Second Baptism? Part 3
If I could just get the voices to get along...
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September 13, 2025
14. The Recruiter's Visit
"Honor is like paper money: something the government spreads around because it doesn't cost them anything."
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
15. Soot and Ashes
A meditation on boyhood glory, camping on the Buffalo River, and the memories that redeem us in our final moments
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
16. The Mountain Maid and the Goddess of the Moon Part One
In the end, all things shall be restored
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
17. The Mountain Maid and the Goddess of the Moon Part Two
Nothing done in love is ever in vain
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
18. The Mountain Maid and the Goddess of the Moon Part Three
The hermeneutical problem with ghosts
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
19. The Summer of '81: Eureka Springs and the Triumph of Ellie Wheelock
John Gaskins finally meets his match
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
20. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Talkin' 'Bout My Generation
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Bulfinch's Memoirs
21. Teddy and Louise
A hitchhiker's theological debate with a family from Illinois
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