The Gift of Words

The Gift of Words

I wrote a poem for my first grandchild, Cailyn Joy McNary, and read it to her last night. She’s snuggled her seven-year-old body beside me on the couch and I began to read. (She the one on the right) She came into my world one day With skin as soft springtime...
5 Lessons I Learned With a New Hobby

5 Lessons I Learned With a New Hobby

My son, Isaac, told me I would really enjoy turning wood on a lathe. I told him no; I didn’t need another hobby. It turns out he knows his ol’ Pap better than his Pap knows himself. After several months of turning him down, he arrived one day with a lathe...
Free book today on Amazon Kindle!

Free book today on Amazon Kindle!

My newest book, The Cows of Hobson’s Pond – Mostly True Stories of Growing up Kansas, is available today FREE on Amazon for Kindle! If you read it, would you be so kind as to post a one or two sentence review on Amazon? The more reviews I receive, the more...