Welcome to the    Personal Web Pages of R.C. Shikles PO Box 307 Clinton,  MO  64735 e-mail:   kcidirect@kcid.net

This is my personal fun page. Please check out personal photos for a view from my deck in central Missouri. Check out the photos of my trips and activities during the last couple of years. Below are some Poems and short stories written and collected over the years. Your comments are welcome.
Interested in my technical background? Please check out my qualifications and experiences. Resume Page Click on me and Let's PLAY !!!	Interested in my travels?? Personal/Home Photos Home/Family Photos Austria/Europe March 2000 New Zealand/Australia August 2000 France/Switzerland March 2001 France Rivera March 2001 Costa Rica July 2001 China Teaching Tour, 2003-6 Guangxi and Guangdong Universities Philippine Trip Leyte, Cebu and Manila
Interested in Writings, Ideas or Thoughts?? Below you will find MY writings, thoughts, etc. or Others writings, thoughts, etc., I think are worth your time and reading.
Category of Short Stories
Adventure to Loyalton by RC Shikles (11 pages) Written about a High Sierras, California trip, searching for an infamous story from CBS about Hal Wright.	Return to New Zealand by RC Shikles, (awaiting my return to NZ) Story about the settling of the southern island of New Zealand by Lloyd Vient and his family. Temporarily on hold.
Songs & Poetry Pages
Rebecca Kathern Our Day The Web's Park Bench Bahama Sunrise I Believe In You Lone Star Heart The Night that Almost Was The First Day Away	The Last Time Away A Woman On a Mission Our Shining Star Murphy's Law of Fatherhood Where Are Those Promises My Rose to You What Would You Say Where has all the Happiness Gone
Category of Ideas and Philosophies
"When Religion Goes Sick" by Wayne Oates	"CCTV9-Dialogue Program Comments" Author - R.C. Shikles, May 12, 2005
"Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq" by Howard Kurtz Michael Kelly, killed in Iraq, April 4, 2003 a Columnist for The Washington Post	"A Kiss Approach to Spoken English" Author - R.C. Shikles, November 30, 2005
"Across the Euphrates" by Michael Kelly, April 3,2003 East of the Euphrates River, Iraq	"As I Matured" Author - Unknown
"Who Would Choose Tyranny?" by Michael Kelly, February 26,2003 Today is Kuwait's Liberation Day	"What is Morality?" by Robert Ingersoll
"Not a White-Lights Person" by Michael Kelly, published Dec. 12, 2001 Died Friday April 4, 2003 covering the war in Iraq	"What is the First Religion?" by Robert Ingersoll
"Immorality on the March" by Michael Kelly, February 19,2003 Concise presentation on the Morality of the Iraqi War	"About Prejudism?" by Robert Ingersoll
	"Consent of the Governed" by Robert Ingersoll
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