by Rick | Aug 3, 2014 | Blog
I grew up listening to enough Thee’s, Thou’s, Thy’s, and Thine’s to believe that God only spoke in 15th Century English. Shakespeare with his where for art thou? and the Psalmist David with his thou makest me to lie down in green pastures made it hard for a Kansas...
by Rick | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
The legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers- Vince Lombardi- would gather his players around, hold up a football, and say, “This, gentleman, is a football.” I have a woodworking shop full of mechanized equipment, but nothing feels quite as good as...
by Rick | Jul 27, 2014 | Blog, Writing Tips
I’m still not sure why we didn’t get killed or end up on life support, but I do know that it all started with the story the young girl in the red SUV was telling herself. Recently, I was pulling our camper with my wife riding shotgun on a stretch of Kansas road called...
by Rick | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
It was January in Kansas in 2010, and volunteers stood in a line one-hundred yards long outside the Kansas Coliseum. As one security guard said to me, “You’d think this was a rock concert!” It wasn’t. It was volunteers who stood in line for hours waiting to package...
by Rick | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
One was our junior high football coach and his breath smelled like a fermented dishrag used to wipe ashtrays. If we went after water during 100-degree heat, this Marine drill-sergeant-turned-teacher called us sissies. To see how tough our stomachs were, he made us lay...
