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 1, 2013 | Blog, Huggable Heroes
When I flip through the news channels, I’m having a harder time finding heroes. Congress doesn’t impress me much. Athletes making a gazillion dollars a year don’t warrant my affection. Movie and music stars don’t receive my adulation. So I look around me for...
by Rick | Oct 11, 2013 | Blog, Huggable Heroes
I met Santiago in a rural village of Nicaragua. He was the kind of person whose smile unlocks a part of your heart and wanders in without any formal invitation. Yet when he gets there, it feels like he’s home and has belonged there all the time. Villagers there have a...
