by Rick | Mar 25, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
Little kids should never be left alone to practice medicine on themselves, their friends, or their pets. They tend to ignore the do no harm part of the Hippocratic Oath; most of the treatments they prescribe are based on witchcraft and voodoo rather than science. A...
by Rick | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
(Names are changed to protect the guilty) Whomever said that females are the weaker sex did not learn the same lessons I did in second grade at my rural grade school; country girls are tough. My first encounter with the weaker sex happened on the playground. Looking...
by Rick | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog, Huggable Heroes
I get excited when I find a new hero. However, I’m kind of picky: I want my heroes to be huggable. Those who inspire me the most are people I can sit down with over a cup of coffee. I find my heroes in the most common places where one wouldn’t expect to find them...
by Rick | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
Part 9 of the Growing Up Kansas Series The best way to foster world peace is to get all the kings, queens, presidents, dictators and their hench-people together at a good ol’ Kansas swimmin’ hole. Putin could strut bare-chested in his Speedo; Merkel could hold the NSA...
by Rick | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
Part 8 in the Growing Up Kansas series I didn’t always detest the marimba; it happened by accident. I blame it all on a traveling evangelist and his marimba-playing wife. My Dad worked in the oilfields but his real passion was to minister to a small country church he...
