Rick Kraft

Roswell

Local Attorney and Syndicated Columnist at Freelance

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Visiting a land across the pond

1 week ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

The first floor is actually the second floor. Bathrooms are called loos. American electronics do not plug into their plugs. Their traffic lights turn yellow before turning green. Even worse, they drive on the wrong side of the road!My wife and I recently spent three weeks in the United Kingdom. We enjoyed traveling with a group of 23 others from the United States. We traveled across England and Wales for two of our United Kingdom weeks.
The unwavering nature of home plate

2 weeks ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

I am a big fan of baseball. My father was a big baseball fan. His father was a big baseball fan. I guess you could say I inherited it from the generations ahead of me!I grew up following baseball. I had a baseball dice game that I played for hours and hours, carefully keeping records for each individual player and standings on how each team performed. I attribute learning math skills through this process to my scoring 99.9 percent in the country on my ACT college test.
To the class of 2025: Bend history

3 weeks ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

The energy, the excitement, and the enthusiasm is always amazing. Photos and flowing tears. Family and friends, some of whom have traveled great distances, anxiously awaiting the ceremony. High school seniors are finishing a dozen years of schooling and about to gain their independence. Excited teenagers all dressed up in their caps and gowns ready to make the rite of passage on to life’s next challenge. Graduating from high school is a big deal.
Things my mother always told me ...

4 weeks ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

My mother always told me, “When you wash your hands in the sink, the dirt is supposed to wash down the drain, not be wiped on the towel.” My mother generally told me this in an agitated voice, obviously upset because the hand towel by the sink was covered in dirt and had to be put in the wash again. She couldn’t understand how a young man who seemed to always have dirty hands could not learn that the object is for the dirt is to go straight from his hands down the drain.
Lord, at the end of my days, let me be spent

1 month ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

I am grateful for the blessing of writing the weekly “Just A Thought” columns. Last Thursday was the 25th anniversary of the column’s first being published. I’d like to start year 26 by sharing my favorite column of the past quarter century with you. It is a flashback with a heartfelt message:On the day that my body is lowered into its grave, I want my life to be completely spent.
What happens in the exchange zone?

1 month ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

It is what happens in the exchange zone that counts. We hold the baton we run with for such a short period of time. We receive it from another, carry it for a while, and then hand off to the one who follows. In track and field competitions, there are team relay events. In these events the goal is for a team of runners to cover the course as quickly as possible carrying a baton from the starting line to the finish line.
Always do this in remembrance of me

1 month ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

Everyone reading this has had some common experiences. We grew and developed in our mother’s womb. We entered this world as a newborn child. During the early years of our lives we were entirely dependent on others. Common experiences — no exceptions. We will all have a common experience in the future. When our days are through, our human life will leave our human body. The body we leave behind will be the responsibility of others to take care of. Our body will be disposed of in some form or fashion.
A family looks back to the future

1 month ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

If you wrote a message to your future self to be read 25 years from now, what would you write? If you handwrote what you wanted to accomplish over this period of time what goals would you set? If you talked to a video camera about life as you know it and life as you hope it would be, what would you say? If you then put items representative of your life today into a time capsule to be opened two and a half decades from now, what items would you put in it?
Are you talking about your ethics or mine?

2 months ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

Several years back when I was president of the New Mexico State Bar I was speaking to a group of a few hundred lawyers at a conference and I asked the group the question, “How many of you in this room are unethical?” Not a hand went up. Good ... I thought. I pulled up short of asking the next question, “How many of you in this room know an attorney who is unethical?” My guess is that almost every hand in the room would be raised.
The basic elements necessary for a hero

2 months ago | rdrnews.com | Rick Kraft

What our nation needs is more heroes. What our community needs is more heroes. What our families need are more heroes. There is a shortage of heroes among us. Now, more than ever in the history of mankind, we need heroes among us. Can you be a much needed hero? Are you worthy of being considered a hero? Those around us need individuals to look up to in their day to day life. They need someone who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. Individuals who rise above.