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: A Slip of the Axe
An excerpt from the novel
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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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November 2024
12. Why I Am a Catholic
On symbols, consciousness, and the radical meaning of the crucifix
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July 25, 2025
13. A Second Baptism? Part 2
Why must everything be so damned hard?
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August 3, 2025
14. A Second Baptism? Part 3
If I could just get the voices to get along...
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September 13, 2025
15. 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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September 15, 2025
16. Why I Am a Catholic, Part Two
Peace, be still
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