by Dalton Patterson | Dec 19, 2023 | In The News
I reached out to shake her hand, and to my shock, the older lady kissed me hard on the lips. It was years ago in Belarus after giving a speech and using the example of harvesting potatoes with my grandpa as a boy. I was so shocked that I thought I would die....
by Dalton Patterson | Dec 13, 2023 | In The News
Never buy a puzzle from a thrift store because there is going to be a missing piece. Last week, my wife broke that rule and bought a jigsaw puzzle from a thrift store, and sure enough, it had a missing piece right in the middle of it. Now that we are further down the...
by Dalton Patterson | Nov 6, 2023 | In The News
I was shocked they had mashed potatoes. A couple of my mentors and I were doing some teaching in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest. The locals told us that an American was running a café in town; to our great surprise, it had great food. The current strong...
by Dalton Patterson | Sep 30, 2023 | In The News
“The gas pumps are turned off.” A few weeks ago, my son and I tried to get gas for our bassboat from the local marina. Usually, the pumps are on during fishing season early in the morning with a credit card, but the new corporate owners shut them down. In...
by Dalton Patterson | Mar 29, 2023 | In The News
It shot out from the left side of the road and hit me before I could even hit my brakes. I was driving one night years ago on a two-lane road when a whitetail deer jumped a fence out of nowhere and hit me broadside. I almost wrecked, not because of the collision but...
