by Kevin Burton Fellow Christians, you’ve heard some stupid things no doubt, as you have tried to witness to unbelievers. Try this one on for size. Once while I was working as an English teacher in Mexico, I tried to witness to a supervisor. We were off the job, a few of us …
Category Archives: Kansas
Floating An Idea For Next Year’s Anniversary
by Kevin Burton From out of the blue, (and from the Associated Press) I get a super idea for a fun adventure. And my wife is shooting it down. But wait. I say this is a developing story. We have almost a whole year to talk things over. Stay tuned dear readers, …
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Our Getaway In Beautiful Downtown Newton
by Kevin Burton “There are no boring towns, just boring people,” said my first editor. Not all his nuggets were golden. That one was, and is. My wife Jeannette and I are not boring people Thus we were in no danger of being bored, though we made the curious choice of Newton, Kansas …
Finding Contentment In The Little Dance
by Kevin Burton Perhaps you noticed that all the teams in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament this year were from the Big Four conferences. That and Kansas losing in the second round has dialed my enthusiasm down very close to zero. A pox on all 16 of their houses …
Mike Kennedy, Forever Voice Of The Shockers
by Kevin Burton Tomorrow Mike Kennedy will call his final regular-season game after 46 years as the voice of Wichita State basketball. This is one of those blog ideas that showed up on the spreadsheet long ago. But it keeps moving down the page. I’m having trouble delivering it. I don’t want …
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The Weather Outside Was Cold, Not Frightful
by Kevin Burton Those color-coded national weather maps always showed the true snow calamity hitting other regions. We in Central Kansas were to be spared. But there were breathless local forecasts calling for eight inches of snow on Saturday. My “rule of half” said we would get about four. Sure enough, by …
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Fantasy Playoffs: Happiness Is A Warm Kicker
by Kevin Burton The beginning of week 14 of fantasy football saw me in a (rare) good mood. I love it when a plan works out! Most of the fantasy world pays scant attention to kickers. In fact, some leagues have eliminated kickers from their scoring. This must be a macho thing. Kickers …
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Look Both Ways And Beware Of Jay Drivers
by Kevin Burton What I see 20 feet away, you can see 200 feet away. By definition therefore, I am legally blind. So you would think, all other things being equal, my career as a jaywalker could/should be painfully short, or maybe even disastrously shortened. I was very nearly run over by …
Vet Says: Your Cat Only Has Meows For You
by Kevin Burton How well do you know you cat, asks a Good Housekeeping article that my brother sent me. Well I am in tune with our two cats, enough so that my wife Jeannette calls me a cat whisperer. If you have cats you know whispering doesn’t always get it done. …
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Fall Colors Are Part Of What I Want To See
by Kevin Burton I have at times, felt sorry for those Americans who live in places that do not have four discernable seasons. Spring, summer, fall and winter. I have lived in the Midwest most of my life and have experienced times when those four seasons all came within the same week. …
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