Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Luigi’s Limoncello WHERE THE GLACIERS ROAMED While Dave and I were in Atchison to visit the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum recently, we also stopped in to take a look at Benedictine College. Our niece is planning on attending Benedictine next year, so we wanted to [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: AMELIA’S BIRTHPLACE In late February, it felt like spring. The only thing missing was the green. Winter neutrals just don’t do a thing for the hills of northeast Kansas. On a recent Saturday, Dave and I headed toward Atchison. Along the way we found [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: LOCKED OUT I turned my back on my car the other day and it locked itself. I heard the click. Luckily, I hadn’t left the key in the car. My car has a remote control to lock and unlock its doors, a wonderfully convenient [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: THE ALLEY A small town is pieced together with alleys. As a teenager, I ran through shadow-filled alleys after dark, playing hide-and-seek with classmates. I hung on in the backseat as my friends, Kim and Tracy, fish-tailed their Suburban, Old Blue, through snowy alleyways [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: WINTER, MAYBE We had been slipping through winter with the greatest of ease. This has not been a snow angel kind-of-a-year here in east-central Kansas. To get angel wings fluttering on the ground you need measurable snow, and in December and January that just [...]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: A BROKEN ARM STORY I heard the snap. And that snap came when Debbie’s knee pressed into my upper arm as we fell onto the hallway floor and then rolled. We had been running when Debbie and I slipped on loose papers on the [...]
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 [...]
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