by Rick | Nov 22, 2013 | Blog
I hate funerals. I’ve conducted hundreds of them while I was a minister at a church and not one person in attendance ever wanted to be there. Our family recently laid our 90-year-old mother to rest and none of us wanted to be there, either. Funerals are awkward and...
by Rick | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
My Dad was a minister of small church in rural Kansas so I spent a great deal of my life sitting on old oak pews. Dad had a great sense of humor and laughed so hard at times we had 911 on speed dial. Even though Dad had a great sense of humor away from the church,...
by Rick | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog
They were high school sweethearts and grew up in the same rural Midwest church as their parents and grandparents. Everyone knew they’d get married as soon as they got out of college. One night, passion outdistanced reason and a new life was conceived. They wouldn’t...
by Rick | Nov 12, 2013 | Blog, Huggable Heroes
I would have climbed Mount Everest for her. Swim the English Channel? Let me get warmed up. All it took to motivate me was her smile and a Snoopy sticker. She loved Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s dog. She was my junior high teacher, Dixie Lee Spencer, and is still in the Top...
by Rick | Nov 9, 2013 | Blog
You can get your FREE kindle version of my book, Hunger Bites: Bite Size Stories of Inspiration on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday- Nov. 9-11 at Amazon. Even if you don’t have a kindle, you can get an Kindle app for your iPad or other notebooks via the Amazon site....