It’s been a while since I started this podcast. I know not a lot of folks have heard the first episode and my quick introduction of the show and what it was I was setting out to do. There’s been a lot of improvement on storytelling, recording quality, etc. since that first episode, so now is as good a time as any for a re-introduction to what I’m trying to accomplish with this show. Hello, it’s me.
A Brief Encounter: Author Jerry Ellis
Has your life ever been changed by a chance meeting with someone? Mine has. Over three decades ago, quite by accident, met author Jerry Ellis while he was working on his first book. He uttered a few sentences to me that changed the way I saw the world and my place in it. We recently reconnected to talk about that day and what has transpired since!
Mr. DeWeese’ Stealth Education: The Flag Program for Potentially Wayward Youth
Educating a half-wild kid with a poor outlook on the whole affair was the task at hand for Grade School Principal Ellis DeWeese. Dedicated to teaching and to the future of his students, he found a way to redirect at least one kid’s ambivalence by employing the old “flag program” trick. I was that kid and I’m glad to have been duped by the King of Stealth education himself.
Red Fern: The Story That Almost Wasn’t
Sometimes a book has a great impact on us, but how grateful would you be to learn how the story almost never was? Here’s the story of such a book and the little known tale about it’s scrappy rise to literary classic. The secret ingredient? Love. Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
Turns Out They’re All Named George: Odd Fellows, Skeletons and an Enduring Legacy
What do you do when you literally find a skeleton in the closet. Kansas City artist Jeff Becker answers that question with the tale of George, the resident skeleton of the Odd Fellows Lodge he purchased. A tale that leaves you pondering what you intend to do with your time on earth!
Within the Realm 