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