by Rick | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog
My grandchildren are full of questions for Papa Rick. They riddle and rat-a-tat-tat me with one-question-after-another; why is the sky blue? how come you don’t have any hair on top of your head? can you sneak another fruit snack for us? I’m full of...
by Rick | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog, Inspirational
I’m pretty picky about my heroes. I certainly don’t let Hollywood or pro sports tell me who I should idolize. I choose my heroes from people I personally know. Mostly, they are people who’ve gone through hell but found glimpses of heaven along the...
by Rick | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog
I lost the audience’s attention in about two minutes. Usually, as a speaker, I can keep it for a bit longer than that, but his audience folded their arms and checked their watches. On the long drive home, I pondered what I had done wrong. I was trying to get them to...
by Rick | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog
“Avoid using the word very because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired; he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad; use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys- to woo women- and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.” – Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s...
by Rick | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
Tony, the tour director, stood at the front of our bus and said with a soft southern drawl, “There are forty strangers here that will spend the next eleven days together in a foreign country and I have one basic rule: 1. No Whinin’ There were plenty of...
