Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: TO BALDWIN CITY AND BEYOND It was two weeks before the 151st anniversary of statehood, but it felt like Kansas Day to me. Dave and I were in the car, white stripes slipping behind us as we drove eastbound. Ahhh. The blue sky, the open [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: A PART OF KANSAS By choice or by default, we live on this ancient land, with its whispers of sharks and dinosaurs, this territory where blood was shed to claim that 34th star, this state where Pluto was, is, and always will be “our planet.” [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: HOOP DREAMS When I was in junior high, I had my mind set on becoming a Harlem Globetrotter. Kids have Beginner’s Mind. As youngsters, we don’t know yet that there are obstacles in the world; our dreams are pure. I had watched the Globetrotters [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BEGIN At age 65, Kansan Waldo McBurney began running. When he was 88, he started running competitively. In 2003 at age 100, McBurney won four gold medals in the World Masters Athletic Championships in Puerto Rico. He not [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette. HEAVEN: CLOSER THAN WE THINK Because my blog focuses on the Sunflower State, I receive emails not only from Kansans, but also from former residents who miss waking up to a good old Kansas sunrise. And then every once in a while, I hear from [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: WALKING THE TRACK When I joined the fitness room at the Emporia Recreation Center about three months ago, I fell in love with the walking/jogging track that circles the top of the gymnasium. I walk, I jog, I try to cover two to four miles [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Photo from kolacherolfs.com (College Station, TX) ONE KOLACHE TOO MANY If you’re not over-consuming calories this month, then you’re just not trying. Sugar, butter and chocolate are all over December like needles on a Christmas tree. You may find treats at work, at parties, at [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: WINTER IS HERE When the seasons change hands, we always expect a few weeks of give and take before the new management gets things under control. I think we can say that management now has a firm grip. The new atmospheric format is in [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: The floor of my kindergarten classroom. DESULTORY THOUGHTS Rain overnight brightened the winter wheat. Some might say that the present color of wheat is emerald green. But when I see those winter fields, I’m reminded of green Crayolas, those thick, seemingly unbreakable crayons that fit [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: NOVEMBER WIND The wind was so strong that I expected to see a few stripes being yanked from Old Glory and watch them whip away into the atmosphere. Stretched to its limit, a flag held onto a residential pole for dear life as raging gusts [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: THAT GRATITUDE THING I’m thankful for my spleen, for its unseen and heretofore unacknowledged work. I’m grateful for taste buds and that my body grows fingernails without the go-ahead from me. November nudges us to consider what we have around us and to express appreciation. [...]
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