Foreword - 13
The Horse Worrier - 17
Knucklehead - 39
The Unnaturalist - 49
Publishers Never Call - 57
The Mangled Emmy - 61
An Overdue Love Letter to Tensas Parish - 65
Chickens One Day, Feathers the Next - 77
It's a Tulsa Kind of Day ... - 81
Racism by Default - 93
Rejections: Bugs On the Windshield - 101
The Unknown Writer - 105
They're Still Stealing van Goghs - 109
Visualizing: Not a Woo-Woo science - 117
Welterweights - 123
Why I Write - 127
Writing Women: How I Do It - 129
The Counselor. Who Says Evil is Banal? - 133
Truckers, Earn While You Learn - 139
Thoughts that come in unbidden from the clouds
while mowing pasture and spoken
into a small recorder - 147
Ernest Thompson Seton, Malcolm X, and Me.
A Sort of Book Review. - 151
George Lois Made Me Do It - 159
What Is It About Montana Writers? - 169
Ioway Plates - 175
Leaving Billings - 181
Ski. If you can. All you can. - 187
Just for the Love of It - 193
I Always Wanted a Junkyard - 199
The Second Happiest Day: A Recommendation - 203
Rocky and the Rebel Punk - 209
Come Together. Right Now. - 219
COVID Days, Chocolate Nights - 225
Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood. A Review. - 233
Make Me an Angel - 239
Lying for Fun and Profit - 245
To Live and Die in LA - 249
My Own Small Admissions Scandal - 261
Trinity - 265
Off Track-What I Did with One Hundred Dollars - 273
