by Rick | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
To get the flavor of growing up as country kid from Kansas, you should add sauntering down a country road in the back of a pickup truck to your bucket list. It should not matter to you that it is illegal. And, at some point, you need to add pick-em-up truck to your...
by Rick | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
Part 5 of the Growing Up Kansas series We country kids invented LOLOPS long before LOL(laugh out loud). LOLOPS: Little Old Ladies of the Partyline Society. We called them the Lollipops. Unlike city folks that live so close they can hear each other pass gas, rural...
by Rick | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Inspirational, Writing Tips
“Papa Rick?” my six-year-old granddaughter K.K. asked, “What part of the story am I?” I like phrases that suddenly arrive then stick to my insides for a few days like a double-stacked peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The latest phrase was a...
by Rick | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond, The Outdoor Life
Note: This is Part 4 in the series, Growing Up Kansas. The best part of growing up Kansas are the creeks, ponds, and swimming holes, all of which posed serious threats to our mortality. We didn’t need violent video games; we defied death in real life. In addition to...
by Rick | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
Note: This is Part 3 in the series of Growing Up Kansas It’s not every day that six little country kids in Kansas have UFOs show up in their backyard and scare the bejesus out of them. During the late sixties, there was an uptick in UFO sightings across the U.S. There...
