By Doug Fincher

“The Quail” By Doug Fincher

January 24, 2024 - In 1947 my English teacher (Mrs. Stanton Memefee) called me to her desk and said, “Henry, “Sleepy” Hughes told me you had found a covey of quail.” When I told her I had flushed a covey near the East Center airport, she asked me to shoot her one and bring it to class. When I said I didn’t have any 12 gauge shells, she said she’d bring me some the next day.

“Preachers and Peanut Butter” by Doug Fincher

January 15, 2024 - In 1951 as I hitch-hiked back to Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, I stopped in for “chili dog” sandwich in Mena, Arkansas. The sandwich cost me twenty-five cents (the cheapest thing on the menu) and it left me a ten dollar bill in my wallet and some change in my pocket. But when I got back to school and reached for my wallet, it was gone. I had lost it somewhere between Mena and Springfield, so I figured I’d lost it in someone’s car that had picked me up.

“The Three Wise Men” By Doug Fincher

“Magi came from the East to Jerusalem….” Matt. 2:11

December 26, 2023 - The Three Wise Men who followed the star to Bethlehem might not have been all that wise…or even men…at least that’s what the Church of England determined at their recent General Synod in London. A committee revising their last Prayer Book says that the word Magi” (translated ‘wise men’) discloses nothing about wisdom or gender”.

“Steve Stevens” by Doug Fincher

December 4, 2023 - When WWII began in 1941, Daddy moved us to Orange, Texas to his new job at the shipyard. That trip of 100 miles was one we kids never forgot. We crawled into the bed of an old truck just big enough for us and our few sticks of furniture. The heads of five grinning Fincher kids popping up and down was probably a sight to see---even in 1941. The thing I most remember about Orange in 1942 was the rain. The ditches stayed full of rain water and all the neighborhood kids swam in them.

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