Month: July 2026

Hi All Podcast Ep 8

On July 29, 2026

In 2026, Author, Blog, Blog writing, Book Recommendation, Comic Book Writer, Comic Books, Podcast, School, Writing

Hi All,

This whole Hi All Podcast series, done for Toastmasters, has been about my struggle to read from childhood on into adulthood.

Comic Books got me through school. Rarely was there a class assigned book that I enjoyed. Only after getting out of the structure of education did I find things on my own that I enjoyed to completion.

First came fantasy, and then science fiction, and then a love for mystery stories.

What I found however was that no matter the genre I had to enjoy the characters and their relationships to like the book. For me a fantasy couldn’t just be about the dragons, a science fiction story shouldn’t just be about spaceships, and mystery isn’t all about deductive reasoning.

I would stumble upon a genre that fit what I really needed in a book with interesting characters and relationships. That genre: Romance.

Hi All Podcast 7

By Kevin

On July 21, 2026

In 2026, Bible, Bible Verse, Blog, Blog writing, Childhood, Christianity, Church, Sunday School, Writing

The Felt-Board Gospel

Hi All,

My faith in God, in Christ, has been a part of me since childhood.

Our family attended church every Sunday, so I went to the children’s Sunday School classes while my parents were in the church service.

This was the period of “Jesus Loves Me” songs and the ‘Felt-Board Gospel’. Where cutout characters were stuck upon a felt covered board. Very visual, really worked well for some of Jesus’ Parables, and stories like Noah’s Ark.

That was all good when I was quite young, but as I got a little older, I wanted to read the stories of the Bible myself.

Unfortunately, as I told you, this was during the worst period of my ability to read.

Which meant I was struggling to read the Bible.

I got through the ‘creation story,” and how Cain killed Able, and even the Tower of Babel. Because those were stories I already knew from Sunday School and were each relatively short.

Everything after that became heavier and harder to read.

Hi All Podcast 6

By Kevin

On July 17, 2026

In 2026, Blog, Blog writing, Childhood, College Classes, Comic Books, Fullerton College, School, Taking Classes, Writing

Hi all,

A dozen or more of us were standing in line in the football field, and it wasn’t even the field at our High School. Tomorrow would be graduation day, and today is rehearsal.

Before we could get into the rehearsal line, some of us had to get into this smaller line that slowly moved and approached a corkboard standing off to the side of the field with several pages pinned to it. Each of us came up to it and searched for our names.

The girl in front of me, and myself, were desperate to find where our names appeared on this board. Because, only then, would we find out if we were graduating high school or not.

As I’ve told you, I struggled through school. All my classes effected by my struggle to read. Each year was better, but it was still hard. When an assignment called me to read chapter 6, 7, and 8, of a science book, or literature tome, the more pages I had to get through the harder it got.

There were classes I wanted to enjoy, but even those were hard.

And yet…

Hi All Podcast – Episode 5

By Kevin

On July 7, 2026

In 2026, Animation, Author, Blog, Blog writing, Comic Book Artist, Comic Books, Los Angeles, Podcast, ToastMasters

Hi All,

I was at my local comic shop when I learned that the King of Comics, Jack Kirby, would be a guest on a local radio station. I had to listen in! It took a while to find the station on the radio dial – yes, I’m that old – but eventually I got it running and listened to his wisdom on art and working in comics.

I would soon be a regular listener to this program every Friday evening. It focused on Science Fiction and related topics. It was Mike Hodel’s Hour 25. “The Hour That Stretches.”

This show would introduce me to many great science fiction authors.