Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 15: Cold Beer and Bedtime
Uncle Boog and the Mexican Victor Sanchez had rolled out of Uncle Boog’s tackle like a couple of professional wrestlers on Saturday Night...
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Feb 2, 202217 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 14: So, I Haven’t Been Messing Around with Anybody
If you’ve ever been out on a summer night in deep woods country near a body of water and far, far away from houses, concrete, and paved...
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Jan 23, 20226 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 13: Feeling Bad, Feeling Better
So, I had that feeling of the foundations of my faith being shaken not unlike many, many young folks who, at some point in their maturing...
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Jan 20, 202211 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 12: The Narrator Witnesses His First and Last Dogfight
Where was I? Oh, yeah… Well, the crowd had started gathering thicker and thicker along the pallet wall of the ring, and the noise they...
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Jan 17, 20227 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 11: The Mexicans Arrive and Bring The Devil with Them
Sorry about that last little bit at the end of the last part of the story, I wasn’t looking where I was going, and I stepped up on a...
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Jan 15, 20228 min read
Uncle Boog: Part 10: Meeting The Tiger and the Local Crowd and then Your Narrator Gets Preachy
“No, I ain’t seen him yet. Some of us have been too busy workin.” That is what I said as I shrugged Uncle Boog’s slimy, cold grip from...
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Jan 10, 20227 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 9: Building the Arena
First off, you are probably already aware, but my name is not Vern. Around the time of the misadventure that I’m sharing with you, a...
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Jan 6, 20228 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 8: A Couple of Interesting Characters and More Work for Me
Picking up where I left yesterday morning... Ozzie Plimpton and Gopher Lewis had a lot to do with what happened to Uncle Boog and me on...
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Jan 3, 20224 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 7: Mostly about the Pour Off Pavilion
Like I said earlier, once you go through the gate, you cross Turkey Creek on a concrete bridge that’s really just a slab poured over four...
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Dec 27, 20216 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 6: A Couple of Tips of the Lips
Pour Off Road begins as a narrow limestone gravel trail between two lived-in houses that sit almost on the highway, and three miles...
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Dec 23, 20215 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 5: A Plan and a Ruse
One summer evening when I had just turned seventeen, between my junior and senior year in high school, Uncle Boog pulled up in the yard...
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Dec 21, 20214 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 4: Lots of Tobacco, Puking up Cold Beer, Laughing, and Bad Taste
Besides that, young people like me liked to be around Uncle Boog. He was always up to no good, and no good was only thing he was good at....
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Dec 19, 20215 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 3: Uncle Boog in and out of Love
Charlotte Perkins married Uncle Boog when she was only sixteen years old, two maybe three years older than me. She was an Apostolic...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight: Part 2: Daddy, Uncle Boog, Me, and Hard Work
Uncle Boog called my Daddy, Donnie, because he was his brother, but you would have to study awful hard to figure out how those two sheep...
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Dec 15, 20213 min read
Uncle Boog and the Dogfight Part 1: What’s in a Name?
Let me explain something before we get started. My Uncle Aron’s full name is Aron Ray Bugler. Most people think the last name should...
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Dec 14, 20213 min read
The Excuse for Uncle Boog and the Dogfight
Anyhow, I am using the word “excuse” here to mean an explanation or justification in the absence of my ability to speak with each reader...
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Nov 24, 20213 min read
An Attempt at Something Different
Picture Caption: I was walking the other night after 6 o'clock, so it was dark, but away from all of the lights of town and with the full...
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Nov 7, 20213 min read
Buying a New Friend?
I finally received my token of friendship from The American Poetry Review this week. I seem to remember when being friends did not...
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Oct 17, 20213 min read
Not Inspired, I Guess
Anyway, I have been doing my daily walking, and I have been waiting for Nature to start showing out, for the colors to change, and to be...
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Oct 10, 20213 min read
An Older, Wiser Man with Rhythm
Anyway, people ask me sometimes, “What do you mean that your older poems do not have a good rhythm? And is it really that important in...
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