Rick Smith, Author at A Peek at the Peak Magazine

When a Home Becomes a House by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:00:00 +0000

When a Home Becomes a House by Rick Smith At first the life-changing reality wasn’t even noticeable. The subtle curse of consistency had provided a world taken for granted. After all, the family had resided in the house for 24 years. Sure, the twin girls were both grown and gone now, but they returned every […]

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Horning In by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:26:08 +0000

January 16, 2022 Horning In By Rick Smith HONK-HONK! It wasn’t the first time I’d been honked at by an impatient driver. And, maybe I could have entered the roundabout sooner. But I was a little tired after singing and playing guitar in the Carefree Gardens as part of a Carefree Spring promotion. I’d […]

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Just My Type by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:00:17 +0000

Just My Type By Rick Smith It was a dream come true. Or at least it had the potential of being so. I had had no reason to suspect that my required attendance at my high school’s Fall Open House would result in such an event…but it did. As a senior and Sports Editor […]

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:00:38 +0000

March 28, 2018 By Rick Smith It wasn’t the smell of just the Asian food from the row ahead of us that was distracting. But combined with the fumes of beer-yesterday’s beer, as in hangover fumes – from the row behind us, our focus on the game gave-way temporarily to a vortex of olfactory voodoo. […]

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Amen Corner by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 03:46:54 +0000

April 24, 2019 By Rick Smit An adventure of a lifetime is something worth thinking about. There is, of course, our own lifetime adventure – we’re right in the middle of that one. But then, there are the lifetimes of others – those who came before or after us or right about the same time […]

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When Christmas Came on December 17

Rick Smith — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:00:05 +0000

By Rick Smith My fast pitch-softball teammate jabbed my ribs with the end of a bat while advising, “Wake-up, Smith. Don’t be missing any more signals.” In my prior time at bat I’d missed a bunt signal from our third base coach. I assured my teammate that I wouldn’t miss a signal again, but he […]

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The Rescue

Rick Smith — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:20:03 +0000

By Rick Smith At first sight we were instantly alarmed. “Oh, no,” my wife expressed with subdued panic. There, in the middle of a busy neighborhood street, was a lost dog, and he was obviously confused and uncertain. Wandering in and out of the two lanes of traffic, cars and trucks stopped from both directions […]

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Poop Bag Payoff by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 13:40:15 +0000

May 28, 2019 Poop Bag Payoff By Rick Smith Brody recognized at once what was dangling from Grampy’s clenched right hand. “Why are you carrying that poop bag around, Grampy?” he asked. Brody was a veteran dog poop picker-upper, faithfully fulfilling the duty at home as one of his family chores. Strolling by at the […]

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Homecoming by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:00:56 +0000

March 29, 2019 By Rick Smith Photographs by Judy Conklin & Les Conklin Introduction Author Rick Smith is a musician who plays the guitar and sings. He also served as a journalist during the Vienames War and lived to write a book about it. In the article below, Rick writes about a very special moment […]

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Time Will Tell by Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:00:36 +0000

Is time perfection? Is there something about time that, by its mere existence, makes it the validation of God? After all, time was here long before any of us came along. And, it’ll still be marching-on long after we’re gone. Perhaps time is a wave, ridden by humanity, one generation after another. But, are the […]

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