It was sometime around 3 a.m. Christmas morning, and the pink pretend kitchen I was helping Santa put together for my almost 2-year-old daughter just wasn’t cooperating. As I remember it now, it was ...

Dane Pelfrey is a former homeless kid, CTO, Hog Calling Champion, and "The Price is Right" contestant. He happily lives in the middle of nowhere, near State Center, Iowa, listening to time ticking by.

When I got married 27 years ago, my wife gave me a chiming mantel clock she’d found at an antique shop. She envisioned it one day resting in a writer’s study we had yet to build. The grand writer’s ...