…A Country Summer’s Death by Joshua Heston Monday night I drove back from Arkansas late. The air was warm, blustery, the moon waxing. It felt like summer, but different. The breeze was sharp, then soft, then sharp. Fitful, as though uncertain. Thickened oak leaves shivered and the dust billowed from the gravel road. I reached over and cranked…
Edward O’Kelley by Clint Lacy Nearly every area of Missouri has a Jesse James story. A few years back I found evidence in the Bollinger County archives of an eye-witness who stated that Frank and Jesse James had camped out on the old David Lutes farm about a mile South of Lutesville, the day after their…
The Wonder Woman of the Ozarks by Clint Lacy The inhabitants of the Ozarks have much in common with those who live in Appalachia. Both regions tend to be areas of little opportunity and what opportunities exist involves hard work. Money is hard to come by now, as it was then which brings us to the…
From Terry Sartin: I want you to be sure anytime you work a muscle group, you do a minimum number of exercises and a minimum number of sets for that muscle group. It will make a difference on how much blood and oxygen you get to those muscle fibers. It will make sure those muscle…
From Terry Sartin: Your metabolism and the growth of your muscles has the snowball effect. Even after this many years, I can sit on the couch and watch TV for a month, find out that I’m going to Florida, and in three weeks I can look pretty much like Rambo. It’s easy. Or in two…
Terry Sartin #Cancer Warrior by Joshua Heston Terry Sartin remembers his diagnosis of stage four colon cancer with the clarity reserved for life-changing moments. He was 42 years old, recently training young police cadets in defense tactics. His wife and a corporal had talked him into a colonoscopy after he mentioned passing blood. “I’d chalked…