Rick Butts

*Video: beatles paperback writer music video set to buzzy book”It’s a dirty story of a dirty man, and his clinging wife doesn’t understand. His son is working for the daily mail. It’s a steady job, but, he wants to be a paperback writer…” The Beatles I took the Powerpoint slides from The Buzzy Book module [...]

Except for 3 years in seminary, my formal education was limited to the lofty pinnacle of a high school degree from the prestigious School of the Osage in Lake Ozark Missouri. After 10 years as a professional musician, rolling around North America in a van playing popular music (read cover band), I got a job [...]

(scroll down and start the Elvis Costello music video – it makes a good audio backdrop to this story) It’s a quarter til midnight. It’s 18 degrees f and the inch-er-so of snow that fell last night in Denver squeaks and gives just a little under your tennis shoes. Mom and Dad and the SUV [...]