Burton Ride Service Delivers (For Me)

by Kevin Burton    The following is a product/service review for the Burton Ride Service, located in South Central Kansas.    The service was formally established in 2012. Terms and conditions for this service are written between the lines of a 2012 marriage license obtained in Sedgwick County, Kansas.    This review is written and …

Watch Your Step, You Dancing Christians

by Kevin Burton    There has been some shuffling and backpeddling, some twisting, prancing and jiving over the years about Christians and dancing.   You could maybe add waltzing and tap dancing.    Just so you know, I hate dancing, at least formal dancing.  So to those who want to condemn it outright, I may …

Hey Foodies, Can You Help A Brother Out?

by Kevin Burton    Do you know people who may ask you a question about something but will do whatever they please no matter what your answer may be?    Do you work for, or did you perhaps marry someone like that?    Well you may place me in their camp ever so briefly today. …

Take Care Of Mom As She Took Care of You

by Kevin Burton    From the cross, the most difficult circumstance imaginable, Jesus took care of His earthly mother.    He knew He was ending his earthly walk and He was telling the disciple John to meet her needs.    “So when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said …

Home Decluttering Means No To Garage Sales

by Kevin Burton    Just two hours on a recent Tuesday greatly enhanced how we feel about our house, and all we did was open the front door.    Electricians came and executed six of the seven small projects we had scheduled. The seventh is much more involved than we thought because of the way …

Will Bengals Say Goodbye To Eli Apple?

by Kevin Burton    There were storms in the KAKE-land viewing area Thursday night, so I made a choice right away.    I said and I meant it, that the very FIRST time our local ABC affiliate broke away from the NFL draft for something as frivolous as a storm warning, I was out. I …

Standing O For Diane Tirado, My Zero Hero

by Kevin Burton    At work you shouldn’t expect pay for, and at school you shouldn’t expect credit for, work you didn’t do.    I give you that conclusion up front, lest it be lost in this strange little tale. There is weirdness in this story, I warn you.    The first strange thing is …

What’s Stranger Than Fiction, AND Truth?

by Kevin Burton    All the cool band names are taken. Trust me. Record label names too.    When last we gathered, I spun a fictional account based ever so loosely goosely on a true story. It was about a band called the Palindromes that made it big in Bermuda.   The true part of …

“Backward And Forward” And My Memories

by Kevin Burton     I guess there’s a reason why melody and memory aren’t far apart in the dictionary. They go together like peas and porridge.     And, for those who think there is something pejorative in the term “one-hit wonder,” well what about all those no-hit nobodies?    We’re all doing our best then, …

Oh Baby! Life Begins At Costco

by Kevin Burton    Is there more to Costco than meets the eye?    From UPI March 30, came a story about a Michigan couple who didn’t quite make it to the hospital when their baby was due.    “Emergency responders in Michigan said an impatient baby refused to wait for the hospital and ended …