Small Town With the World's Biggest Things
We’re all familiar with them and might even have one in a town nearby. They’re those places laying claim to having the largest frying...
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- Aug 16, 2022
- 4 min
Dinny, Mr. Rex and Rattlesnakes, Oh My!
Rawr!!!! It really wasn’t planned but it couldn’t have been more fitting. Darling Daughter and I were driving her and fiance’s car back...
- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
A Night of Dreams
I hadn’t planned on it. I’d thought about it but when I realized it would be held just three days after Darling Daughter’s wedding I...
- Jun 10, 2022
- 4 min
Standing in the Center of the Universe
It sounds like one of those jokes that starts with, a rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar. There I was, standing in the Center...
- Jun 8, 2022
- 4 min
That's Settled, It's Called Pop
700 bottles of pop on the wall, 700 bottles of pop. Take one down, Pass it around, 699 bottles of pop on the wall. Ok, so sue me. Those...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 2 min
Moments of Joy, Boulder Falls
The Eiffel Tower, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate Bridge, all bring wonder and joy. But not everything has to be big, or the first thing on...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
What Makes the Black Canyon, Black
Black Canyon of the Gunnison isn’t the deepest US National Park canyon and it’s certainly not the widest. In fact, the very opposite is...
- Feb 2, 2022
- 7 min
San Antonio, David Karesh and the Branch Davidians
I was in San Antonio, Texas, 29 years ago this March, as the Branch Dravidian standoff was entering its third week less than 10 miles...
- Jan 28, 2022
- 3 min
Putt Putt to Pizza Hut
There’s a Pizza Hut located right smack dab in the middle of the Wichita State University campus in Wichita, Kansas. You’ll find it...
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Wouldn’t You Like To Be a Pepper Too?
If you’re down Waco way in Texas, maybe visiting Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Market, and looking for somewhere different to go for a...
- Jan 20, 2022
- 5 min
Greenwood Rising - Story of a Massacre
The thing that struck me, that grabbed my attention, dropped my jaw and provided a glimpse of the devastation that occurred a century...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Amana: A Holiday Tradition
It was a tradition. My birthday is early December and as Darling Daughter was growing up our family would take a day trip the first...
- Nov 19, 2021
- 5 min
Beam Me Up Scotty (Capt. Kirk's Conception)
If you’re willing to use a little imagination, make that a lot of imagination, you can beam yourself up in a transporter located at the...
- Oct 25, 2021
- 6 min
The Best World Series Ever
Thirty years ago, the Minnesota Twins, a team that finished dead last the previous year, faced off against the Atlanta Braves, a team...
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
Marfa's Mysterious Lights
There’s a line in Miranda Lambert’s song, In His Arms, that references the Marfa lights: Is he praying for rain out in West Texas? Is he...
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Comanche National Museum & Johnny Depp?
Sitting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel room recently I was doing what most of us do when killing time these days, aimlessly scrolling...
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Keeper of the Plains
Rising more than 70 feet above the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers in the heart of Wichita, Kansas, is a steel...
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
A Very Big Thing for Neglected Animals
Mary’s Farm Sanctuary recently posted a photo on Facebook of their newest adoption, a senior horse that will someday again, be beautiful....
- Oct 5, 2021
- 4 min
Starry, Starry Night, Immersively
Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Vincent -...
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Working On the Chain Gang
Images of Paul Newman and Cool Hand Luke came to mind as I drove down a short Louisa County Iowa highway recently. More appropriately...
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