Author: Jeff Hicks
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Thanksgiving: Bring on the Food
There were folks in that crowd who valued their pie more than my life.
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Kid Currey
It was 1974 and I was just a kid looking for heroes. In those days, the idea of kids having someone to look up to was in vogue. It hadn’t yet been marred by athletes betting against their own teams or rock and roll stars wasted on acid – at least in my world. Sports […]
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Dugout Dick: Living the American Dream
“You bump your head a lot when you live in a cave,” Dick said one time.
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Idaho Pioneers: Robert and Anna Hicks
They were looking for a better way of life – to breath air that hadn’t already been breathed.
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Buckskin Bill: The Man, the Legend
Buckskin Bill said, “Ma’am, we don’t get broken legs around here!”
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Stand for Something
Biz Break is a blog that discusses the wisdom and stories that define the human experience. And by human experience, I’m referring to the collection of everyday events that humans endure in life, including happiness, sadness, love, heartbreak, work, play, expectations, and failures. My first introduction to the phenomena framed in the context of “human […]
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Being a Second in a First-Rate Series
My job was to look mean, worn-out, and hungry for gold.
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The Art of Life: Take Me Back to Salmon
Perhaps we will all eventually return to our roots and reclaim in some intrinsic way what was once ours.