I CLINK … From Kansas

Tomorrow will be our daughter Katie’s thirty first birthday. Last year when she turned thirty Richard and I celebrated our thirtieth wedding anniversary four months later. Katie handed this note to me sometime later and mentioned she meant to write more and give a speech on the day of our anniversary but had forgotten about […]

The ole blue goose is what he called it. That spitting sputtering light baby blue piece of awesomeness with a white top and white walls on the tires. Some memories come back that are like an instant hug and a giant bowl of comfort food that just floods your soul with awesome gooey goodness. Walking […]

When Kim and my nephew Travis did the exhausting and time consuming task of investigating our genealogy they uncovered and discovered some lasting and beautiful family history. The old stone church pictured here is part of our history and story. Located in the middle of nowhere outside of the town of Leoti Kansas is the […]

I seem to be deeply impacted and most creative in certain spaces and I draw to quiet and self-reflection like a moth to a flame. I work in theatre most days, constantly interrupted and busy, but when I get home I sink into the Garden and let its natural healing properties slow down my pace […]

I can’t tell you how she came to live with us, she was a black and tan shepherd and Dad was notorious about getting a lot of our animals from the shelter in town. I was about eight and she and I bonded right off. I remember she was so skinny, her face so sad […]

This candle given to me by my daughter Shauna and it smells amazing by the way. After the dust of celebration settled from my birthday I finally sat down in my office and read through all the cards again and looked at all the gifts. I reached for the little candle in a box, smelled […]

According to statista the number of fatalities in all major wars involving the United States from 1775 to 2022 adds up to 1,304,702,000 lives. Most of the over one million plus number was during the American Civil War where over 620,000 Americans fought for the belief that slavery was wrong and that the lives of […]

There is an appointment I like to keep in June and it is what I like to call the Golden Hour. It is when the wheat has reached its time for harvest and stands at its tallest reaching up to the warmth of the morning sunrise. It is as if God reaches down in glorious […]

I have never met a cheese I didn’t like, well there maybe a few but I would try them at least once before it would be a hard pass. Tomorrow June 20th I will be celebrating my 60th birthday and I am pleasantly surprised and quite grateful to be doing so I might add. I […]

I said I would never get a tattoo it just wasn’t on my radar. Then to even consider it and actually putting it on my foot was just a little crazy for me. After the loss of my sister Kim, Mom and nephew I suppose I was more willing to entertain setting a remembrance with […]