by Rick | Nov 22, 2015 | Blog, People Who Inspire Me
I traveled to the world’s largest refugee camp in Dedaab, Kenya, with Ambassador Tony Hall, a legendary leader in the fight against hunger and now director of the Alliance to End Hunger. Dedaab is 50 miles from the Somalia border and home to three-quaters of a...
by Rick | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, People Who Inspire Me
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 | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, People Who Inspire Me
My first novel, Voices on the Prairie, is due to be released July 23. Naturally, the story is set in one of my favorite places on earth: the Flint Hills of Kansas. The photo that accompanies this blog is one I took last week of a local cowgirl, Richell Bailey, just...