by Rick | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
I don’t need to take a Dale Carnegie Course in How to Win Friends and Influence People. Instead, I can watch our little dog win over the affections of a feral cat and believe it will work on people. A year ago, I agreed to get another Shih Tzu on one condition:...
by Rick | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, Inspirational
When Carmen Miller lined her children up for a lickin’ when they were kids, I stood in line and took my medicine, too. Her children – the little hooligans I write about in The Cows of Hobson’s Pond series – were all my age so she just seemed...
by Rick | Sep 6, 2015 | Blog, The Cows of Hobson's Pond
When I was a kid, being bored was an entry-level crime in our house. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, Mom pontificated. She also kept a pitchfork in the broom closet for those times I either admitted to, or looked like, I was bored. “Here,” she’d hand me the...
