Tales from Auburn Creek

by Kevin Rader

One wanted to be President. The other wanted to be a College Football Head Coach. They both got what they wanted.

That brings us to the latest installment of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled 'The President and the Coach".

"I always imagined after my Aunt Debbie passed away that Jesus would greet her with these simple words.  "Thank you for treating one of mine as one of yours."   Because that is exactly what she did.  She took in a wayward teenage boy and provided a foundation for him to build on. Now 50 years later a friend who has only known me for a year recently called to ask if the name 'Debbie' meant anything to me.  That phone call and the memories it brought back are the crux of the latest installment of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled "The Decision."

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Life decisions can be a quirky deal.  Sometimes you don't even know the decision you made was actually a life decision until a majority of life is behind you.  In this Bonus Installment of the 'Tales from Auburn Creek' I reflect on one such instance that spanned over thirty years.  It's entitled "The Call."

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It was the 70’s. It was long before cell phones and the internet but we still found ways to communicate. We still had landlines and the radio which leads me to the latest installment of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled “This Time.”

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How many times in your life have you thought "wow", what just happened could really be a scene from a movie. It is just hard to believe. Well this is a story about one of those incidents. It is too good not to share. Hope you enjoy this installment from the second season of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled “Economics.”

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Some things are a lot clearer with hindsight.  That is certainly the case with the very first trip I ever made to Denver, Colorado.  Back in 70’s you had to take a required FCC Test to get a third class license if you wanted to be on the radio.  So my boss made arrangements for me to go take it. 

Hence the latest installment in the second season of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled, “Denver.”

We have all seen things we wish we could unsee or better yet, forget. But for whatever reason we cannot.

Part One of the Season Two of Tales from Auburn Creek is just such a dilemma. Hope you enjoy 'The Unfair'.

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There usually is something that reminds us of our childhood that still reverberates inside of us when are become adults.  For me there are more than a few but the latest installment of The Tales from Auburn Creek has a more innocent tone about it.  Most of us were socially awkward at that age and that feeling never seems to leave us.  Sure we outgrow it but it’s still there at least it is for me as you will hear in this segment entitled “The Dance.”

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He lost his wife and his home in the country, well sort of.  His children talked him into moving into town. He didn’t want to do it but they convinced him. He still owns all he had amassed over his nearly 80 years which was impressive but you would never know it. It is often said a man is what he wears. It was kind of a manufactured line to sell the best in clothes. Well, he was what he wore and that is part of what makes him so interesting. Hope you enjoy the first fictional Tale from Auburn Creek entitled 'Glenn'.

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There are many things from when I was growing up that don’t really seem to exist anymore. One of them is the old Pool Hall. One could learn a lot hanging around there. I sure did and oddly enough it wasn’t from a pool shark. It was from a German immigrant who made the place hum. To him and to me it was known simply as the Poodle Hall.

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It took 45 years for Verla to talk about the time death knocked on the door of her rural Lexington, Nebraska farmhouse. It just so happens, that is where I grew up.

She was rescued that day and remains ever thankful for that.  Her visitor had already killed once and would kill again but she lived to tell me about it and I will share it with you.

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If we are truly honest with ourselves I think we can all look back at our lives and remember someone who helped us along the way.  It certainly doesn’t have to be a human. Sometimes animals can play a surprising role as Kevin Rader shows us in the latest installment of the Tales from Auburn Creek.

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In this episode, you begin to hear how things started to fall apart after my mother went away. Again the names are changed but this will give you a better idea of what was to come. This story is entitled ‘Saturday Morning’.

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Growing up in the shadow of mental illness is never an easy thing. Award winning journalist Kevin Rader shares the toll it took on his family when he was growing up. It’s the second installment of the Tales from Auburn Creek.

He would grow up to be awarded a National Sigma Delta Chi for Journalism at the National Press Club in Washington DC, two National Edward R Murrow awards and 31 Regional Emmy’s but while that may be how his career ended, it certainly did not start that way.  One miracle after another led him out of poverty, out of neglect and into the unlikely world of broadcasting.  And yet in spite of everything it was those early years that prepared him for what was to come.  In episode one “The Beginning” you will hear why things started so badly and how far he would have to go.