Robert Darrol ShanksTales from Northern Arizona is a series of short stories, essays, and (for those familiar with computers) blogs. The word "blog" is and remains somewhat of a mystery to me, it applies only to articles and stories written using a word program based ona computer system. Growing up in Nebraska in a different and simpler time of history in America, I learned to read at an early age, as my mother told the story, I almost caused my dad to crash his car as his small three-year-old blond headed son Bobby looked out the car window and read a sign printed on the side of a filling station building and then said "Ice" to his parents. Since I was the only child at the time my mother and father had not expected this little boy riding in the back seat of a car to read a sign and then speak so clearly about what he read since he was not even in school yet! Read More Read Less