Category Archives: Personal

Opinions, news, musings, gripes, grins.

Give Slacker a Try

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Wayne Rice

Slacker.com is a great internet radio station offering just about every genre of music for free, 24 hours a day. I listen to it on my computer in my office and also on my phone (Android). Slacker is based here … Continue reading →

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My Sis the TV Star

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Wayne Rice

My sister Mary Rice Hopkins has been writing, performing and recording outstanding children’s music for several decades and now she has her own TV show which is aired weekly on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Personally, I’m not a big … Continue reading →

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My Weekend in the Hospital

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Wayne Rice

Friday night I came home from a middle school event at College Avenue Baptist Church called Dye Wars (200 kids in a colored-water fight) to find that my face felt funny. I know my face looks funny a good deal … Continue reading →

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Back Home

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Wayne Rice

Well, we finally moved out of the hotel we’ve been staying in for the past three months and spent our first night back home. Even though the house is in disarray, with most of our stuff still in boxes or … Continue reading →

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Junior High Camp @ Forest Home

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Wayne Rice

Last week I accompanied the middle-school group from our church to summer camp at Forest Home. I really can’t remember the last time I spent a week with a group of junior high boys as a cabin counselor, but the … Continue reading →

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Here’s Layla!

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Wayne Rice

Let me introduce you to our fourth grandchild, second granddaughter and first child of our son Corey and his wife Janna … Layla OraBelle Rice, born Saturday night June 5. She’s beautiful of course, weighing in at 6 pounds, 14 … Continue reading →

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At Least We Have Maid Service

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Wayne Rice

It’s hard to believe that such a small fire can cause so much damage. A week after Easter, an accidental fire in our kitchen destroyed our microwave oven above the stove as well as one small section of our kitchen … Continue reading →

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A Rock and Roll Easter

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Wayne Rice

Well, actually it was another bluegrass Easter at our house this year, but a major earthquake in Baja California (Mexico) had things “all shook up” for a few seconds. It happened while our band was playing the Cherokee Shuffle. Everyone … Continue reading →

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Generation to Generation

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Wayne Rice

My new book Generation to Generation was released a couple of weeks ago by Standard Publishing. I just got my copies and I’ve been handing them out to family and friends like a new father handing out cigars. Writing a … Continue reading →

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A Conversation with Henri Nouwen

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Wayne Rice

When I was editor of Youthworker Journal many years ago I conducted a phone interview with the late priest Henri Nouwen for an issue we were doing on personal spirituality (spring 1993). I recently found the mini-cassette of that interview … Continue reading →

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