by Rick | Dec 25, 2017 | Blog, Grandpa Harry Stories, Inspirational
Harry shoveled the snow away from the barn door and, once inside, made his way to the two pairs of wooden snowshoes hanging on a nail. The larger set was his; his wife, Gladys, wore the smaller ones when she was alive. He lifted the shoes off the wall and laid them on...
by Rick | Nov 22, 2015 | Blog, Inspirational
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, 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...
