the morning bull pen

My first New Year's prediction? That Jason Aldean will be a headliner for Watershed 2016. Watershed will be two weekends this year -- July 29-31 and Aug. 5-7.

Have you heard of a progressive party? (No, not that one -- we're not talking politics here.)

Over the Christmas holiday we threw a party just for my husband's family. It's usually the day after Christmas and it always involves a white elephant gift exchange. Everyone's white elephant gift exchange rules are different. Here are ours: When it's your turn you decide if you want to keep your current gift before opening it or steal someone else's. Our white elephant rules include stealing a gi

Wednesday (Dec. 16) was not only my birthday, but also my birthday buddy's -- Frankie Ballard. I was lucky to meet Frankie at Watershed this past summer. Of course, I mentioned to Frankie that we both share the same birthday, but that I was much older than him...

Warner Bros. released the trailer to "The Legend of Tarzan" last week. Why does this interest me? It just so happens that my favorite actor, Alexander Skarsgard, is playing the king of the jungle -- Tarzan!

Dear Rik, Michele and Cefus: I've been dating a guy for a couple of months. I really like him and I'm stumped as to what to get him for Christmas? I don't want to overdo it, but don't want to get him something lame, either. Any ideas for gift giving when you've just started dating...

For some reason this year, it's taken a lot to get me into the holiday spirit. I've tried listening to Christmas music alllll the time, but it only helps a little. Until yesterday, when we received all that beautiful white fluffy stuff!

This question came up the other day: Is it OK for a married male co-worker to have drinks after work with a newly single co-worker? The married male co-worker claims that they just needed to discuss some work stuff that they couldn't talk about at the office...

It's been about 10 years since I've been to Leavenworth during the Christmas Lighting Festival for my birthday, so I was super-excited to return this past weekend!

Kenny the Elf is back with the Bull Pen until we send him back out with some of our awesome listeners. The mischievous elf spent the weekend with Frankie Meyerriecks and family, going to dinner at Creekside Bar and Grill and playing with Frankie's daughters Kaydi and Brooklyn.

Congratulations to our misbegotten Santa picture winners ... Eric-Angela Garza Christy Blankenbaker Alisha Lea Perroit They scored family 4 packs to see Disney Live! Mickey & Minnies Magic Doorway at the Sundome January 18th....

It's that time of the year ... time to gorge ourselves on all those yummy Christmas Cookies! For years, my favorite Christmas Cookie was the Pecan Nougat and then a few years ago they changed them to Cashew Nougat Cookies.