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...
