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Fly-fishing the Blue River in Colorado
Fishing is always the answer- even when it’s not clear what the question is. – John Gierach I hate getting skunked fly-fishing for trout. But after a long day of standing in a river waving a big stick,...
View ArticleGrowing Up Kansas: Learning to Write Until I Make Myself Laugh
Somewhere, some cow’s therapist knows everything there is to know about me. When I started writing my soon to be released novel, Voices on the Prairie, I took the advice of E.L. Doctorow who said that...
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People Who Amaze Me: Jerry Toews and His Antique Engines
If it’s built after 1915, I’m not interested. – Jerry Toews Jerry Toews (Taves) wandered down the alleys as a kid in Nickerson, Kansas, digging through 55-gallon burn barrels looking for things like...
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A Photo Journey: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Put away your red slippers and Toto jokes; there really is no place like the Flint Hills of Kansas. My heart feels at rest when I’m there; this is my heart’s home. A Flint Hills Prairie Morning Here’s...
View ArticleLeaning in to Love: A Feral Cat Becomes Our Pet
A feral calico cat who has lurked around our barn for months has transformed into a love-hungry creature that follows our family around lookin’ for love. If you would ask Patches, I believe she would...
View ArticleVoices on the Prairie: A Novel
Sunny Morgan retreats to the Lonesome Star Ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas, nursing wounds left by family tragedies and an unfaithful fiancé. The sounds of the tallgrass prairie and the words of an...
View ArticleHow to Handle the Critics in Your Life
“And, of course, with the birth of the first artist came the inevitable afterbirth- the critic.” – Mel Brook’s “Birth of the Art Critic.” Getting a publisher interested in my first novel, Voice on the...
View ArticleGrowing Up Kansas: Win Big at Rick’s Shooting Gallery!
When I was a kid, being bored was an entry-level crime in our house. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, Mom pontificated. She also kept a pitchfork in the broom closet for those times I either...
View ArticleMy Huggable Heroine: Carmen Miller
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...
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How to Win People Over: A Lesson From my Dog
I don’t need to take a Dale Carnegie Course in How to Win Friends and Influence People. Instead, I can watch our little dog win over the affections of a feral cat and believe it will work on people. A...
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Today it is me: Tomorrow it is you – Amina, the refugee
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...
View ArticleWhizzin’ on the Christmas Presents
Little country boys enjoy the glorious freedom of taking a leak in the great outdoors anywhere and at anytime. He will not be inconvenienced during his escapades running home to Momma and the bathroom....
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Kauai: A Travel Journal, Part 1
An adventure is something you sit at home in your easy chair wishing you were having, but when you’re having it, you wish you were sitting at home in your easy chair. My curiosity about the world began...
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Kauai Travel Journal: A Brief History
I love history so before I travel to a destination, I read history books, pour over maps, watch documentaries and look at hundreds of photographs. I do that because history is about stories and stories...
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How to Create WOW! with Photographs: Kauai Travel Journal
I want to teach you the simplest trick I know to make people ooh-and-ahh over your photographs. Want to know what it is? I go after the perfect photograph like a hunter going after a trophy to mount on...
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Hiking to Hanakapiai Falls: Photography Journal of Kauai
Robert Frost’s advice to choose the road less-traveled is seldom a good idea when it comes to hiking in a jungle. Choosing the path well-worn has more to do with common sense than being a rebel. There...
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Photographing Ke’e Beach: A Travel Journal to Kauai
I saw a real, live, mermaid the first time I was at Ke’e Beach along the north shore of Kauai ten years ago. Or, at least, she wanted to be one because she had fish scales tattooed over both legs from...
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Photographing Limahuli Garden: A Travel Journal of Kauai
What would you load in a canoe if you were crossing the ocean to a place no one had ever been before? Somewhere around 300 A.D., people in the Marquesas Islands far more brave and far less equipped...
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The One Lane Bridges of Kauai: A Photographic Journal
Kauai is not a good place to be if you like to hurry. Even if you are accustomed to a frenetic lifestyle, Kauai has a way of taking that out of you. And if you don’t give it up willingly, it just kind...
View ArticleThe Power of a Compliment
I can live two months on one good compliment. – Mark Twain You have the power to make the people around you better through the power of a good compliment. Even if you have tough things that need to be...
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