Tag: Kansas

  • Good Bye 2025

    Good Bye 2025

    In what seems like the blink of an eye, another year is gone. We’ve survived yet another trip around the sun. While it’s still 365 days, the rotation seems to spin faster and faster every year. My resolution this year was not to make any resolutions, and I held to that. You can’t fail if…

  • Pizza Travels – The Other Manhattan (Kansas)

    Pizza Travels – The Other Manhattan (Kansas)

    Everyone knows about the Manhattan in New York City, but did you know there is also a Manhattan in Kansas? There may be two Manhattans out there, but they are very different. One is known as being the pizza capital of the world, the other is home to Kansas State University. So similar, yet so…

  • Pizza Travels: Mission, Kansas

    Sometimes the balance of the universe is restored, reminding us there is a pizza god. Back in September of 2021, I wrote a story about one of the biggest tragedies of the covid pandemic nonsense: A beloved pizza restaurant closed (Read: Covid Finally Hits Home). This was a horrible time in my life because the place…

  • Covid Finally Hits Home

    Covid Finally Hits Home

    Everyone has been affected by by Covid-19 in different ways. For me, something tragic happened that was beyond anything I could have ever imagined. We knew Covid-19 would cause sickness. We knew it would cause death. We knew it would cause disruptions and chaos in our world, but for me, the unthinkable happened. My favorite…

  • Surviving Without Electricity…

    Surviving Without Electricity…

    I often write and speak about disaster preparedness and emergency planning, but I unfortunately had to practice what I preach after my house was blasted by a major winter storm recently. It was a lovely January morning in Kansas… I was happy and comfortable in my nice warm house, looking out the window at the…