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First Book Event

June 4th, 2014 at 8:09 pm

The first book event with my new book, Waiting on the Sky, will be Friday at Emporia’s own Town Crier Book Store. Thirty-some authors till be there. Saturday, June 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Town Crier 716 Commercial, Emporia. Waiting on the Sky is a second collection of my Flyover People columns as seen […]

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May 23

May 23rd, 2014 at 5:54 pm

May 23 Sometimes thunder comes as a teenage boy, reckless, loud, a demolition derby in the clouds. But today, thunder is an old man, hesitant, lurching across the sky, the pain of age pulling at his bones.

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It’s Kansas Day

January 29th, 2014 at 4:51 am

*** Celebrate Kansas Day, buy a Kansas book! May I suggest… A collection of 80 essays about the Kansas experience: Flyover People – Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State. I write about the wind and the weather and the seasons. I write about people and places, about growing up in a small town. […]

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Springtime in January

January 30th, 2012 at 1:25 pm

Go back to sleep, daffodils, it’s only fake spring, not real spring. And, it’s a contraily kind of a day: 7 second video… Contrails. At 12:30 p.m., it’s 62 and mostly clear. Heading up to 69 today.    

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Green

January 15th, 2012 at 8:15 pm

Midland Railway – Baldwin City

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Wiper workout

October 9th, 2011 at 6:50 pm

When I looked at the weather symbols on my computer this morning, it showed partly-cloudy for Emporia with a high of 74 degrees. So, I left, wearing short sleeves. I didn’t throw a jacket in the car, didn’t think I’d need one. It’s been in the 80s around here for a week or so. My […]

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Vogts’ book giveaway

October 20th, 2010 at 6:16 am

Fellow Kansas writer Deborah Vogts has an author event coming up at the Gridley Public Library (Coffey County) on Saturday, October 23, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Deborah writes Christian romance novels based in the Flint Hills. So far, she has published Snow Melts in Spring and Seeds of Summer and is working on a […]

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Big Well Gift Shop

October 7th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

The Big Well Gift Shop in downtown Greensburg now stocks Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State. The book has an essay about the tornado/town, so I’m pleased that they are carrying the book there. A new gift shop/visitor’s center will be constructed near the Big Well itself, so this is temporary […]

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School Colors

September 28th, 2010 at 7:59 am

Carrying the school colors, flag girls walk behind the Hartford Jaguar marching band in last Saturday’s Hartford Harvest Day parade.

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Signing Desk

September 20th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

The Governor’s ceremonial signing desk. With a Robert Sudlow painting overhead. (Sudlow lived in Lawrence and died earlier this year.)

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Lamont

March 7th, 2010 at 9:35 am

An ag-related building in downtown Lamont (Greenwood County.)

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