by Rick | Dec 25, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
The best Christmas present I ever received as a child was secondhand; it had belonged to some other ten-year-old boy and my parents picked it up in a thrift shop because they couldn’t afford a new one. There is something in that memory that wraps my heart around a...
by Rick | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
My Dad was a minister of small church in rural Kansas so I spent a great deal of my life sitting on old oak pews. Dad had a great sense of humor and laughed so hard at times we had 911 on speed dial. Even though Dad had a great sense of humor away from the church,...
by Rick | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
I always assumed the Green Revolution started in California where all the health-conscious folks were trying to figure out what to do about smog in L.A. As it turns out, the Father of the Green Revolution grew up in Iowa. Dr. Norman Borlaug, the man who is...