by Rick | Sep 4, 2012 | Blog
Did you know you actually feel beauty? No, not an interactive art exhibit that you touch, but a secret place deep inside where you can actually feel beauty. Five minutes of gazing at something beautiful makes me start singing a little Michael Buble – “I’m Feeling...
by Rick | Aug 19, 2012 | Blog
I overheard my dogs telling their friends about me baking a cherry pie. They expressed appreciation for interrupting their monotonous life with my spasmodic machinations in the kitchen, a place where I usually consume rather than create. They asked for Rachel Ray but...
by Rick | Aug 15, 2012 | Blog
The broken down old Cottonwood tree south of Emporia, Kansas has taught me much. Thousands of admirers pass by her gallantly standing, wounded but majestic, along the turnpike that weaves through the Flint Hills. Early one morning, I finally found that right moment to...
by Rick | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
The professor held up a dodecahedron the size of a fist and proudly proclaimed that he had built the masterpiece for his wife during their courtship. It was going to be a long semester. My first philosophy class and I had a prof whose idea of romance was to create...
by Rick | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
It’s called our birdbrain: That little part of our brain that triggers a “fight or flee” reaction when something- physical or emotional- threatens to hurt us. The core of our biological response, when we sense danger coming at us, is to put up our dukes and fight like...
