Tales from Auburn Creek

This is Kevin Rader.  I can’t tell you how many times I have heard someone described as a person of few words.  That is rare thing these days.  Usually everyone has something to say and now have an internet podium to say it.  But what happens when both of those worlds collide.   That is what I found recently and I have to say it was an interesting albeit brief exchange.  I found it so interesting...

For years I was told you just need to move on, put it all behind you.  Now after sharing so much of my childhood I feel like I finally can.  It is not an easy story to tell.  It was even more trying to live through but now it will finally come to an end. With the 26th episode from The Tales from Auburn Creek I will have put it all out there, not for personal gain but hopefully to benefit of all of...

[by Kevin Rader] He was the kind of teacher you would always hope your children would have. I never realized how fortunate I was until my later years. Looking back he served his country and his students well which ai hope to capture in my latest installment of The Tales from Auburn Creek entitled “Reform the Rows.”

This is Kevin Rader and welcome to The Tales from Auburn Creek. I know a lot of time has passed since our last installment. A lot of life has passed since then as well. I wanted to take some time to do other things and most importantly I didn't want my writings to be forced. I needed the stories to continue to write themselves. It seems that enough time has passed for me to start the final stretch...

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 'Deb...

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." Please SHARE for additional episodes to continue.

by Kevin Rader 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 .”

by Kevin Rader 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.” Rader Media & Marketing LLC. www.rad...

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 e...

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'. Please share and comment on your favorite episodes on your social media platforms.

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 a...

One question you always get when you work in the media is how did you get started in the business?  Most will tell you about getting experience during college and then an internship and so on and so on.  Mine started much earlier than that.  As I have always said God made sure I was fed but he was about to teach me how to fish and that changed everything as you hear in this installment of the Tale...

Some might refer to it as a day of reckoning.  Others might say it was a blessing.   Without a doubt it was one of the most painful times of my life but it was also an answer to my prayers.  This is the latest installment from The Tales from Auburn Creek entitled “An End as Well as a Beginning.” Music "Highway Traveler" by Alanna Rader Episode Copyright  Rader Media & Marketing, LLC.

There is a slight twist in the latest installment in the Tales from Auburn Creek.  Just like there is often times in life. It was really just happenstance.  You write it, then you try to think of a name for the story and there it is. The title just brings it all together. So goes the latest installment entitled “The Drink.” ”Music "Highway Traveler" by Alanna Rader Episode Copyright Rade...

My brother warned me about what could happen.  He said it would seem like just innocent fun at the beginning but then turn into something no one saw coming.  I don’t know if I really believed him at the time but after this incident I gained a better understanding.  So goes the latest installment from “Tales from Auburn Creek” entitled Joy Ride.

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 t...

None of us truly know why things happen the way they do.  We like to act like we know but really we don’t.  We also can’t really tell what those things will do or mean to us.  In this story you might ask, what does little league baseball, a boys training school and a Sigma Delta Chi Award have in common?  This segment from the Tales of Auburn Creek entitled “Three Strikes You’re Out” will answer t...

This country is facing so many problems.  Crime, murder, drug addiction and mental health issues just to name a few.  The surprising thing is how the thread that runs though all of that is the issue of mental health.  We have decided to wash our hands of it all and are now paying the price.  The old mental hospitals may not have been perfect.  It was expensive but was we can see clearly know.  So...

The transition from elementary school to Junior High or Middle School as it is now called can be a difficult one.  But it can also open your eyes.  Help you to realize that you are not alone.  That discovery can make all the difference in a young persons life including mine as you are about to hear in this segment of the Tales from Auburn Creek entitled “At the Curb.” Episode Copyright Rader Media...

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.

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. Music “Highway Traveler" by Alanna Rader Episod...

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.

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’.

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.