Who is Grizzly?
In 1980, Ray Racobs, a decorated Vietnam veteran in a helicopter attack squadron, started his twenty-seven-year fulltime + career as a youth camp manager. Early on in those years, he obtained a 4.0 GPA Associate’s Degree at Butler County Community College. In 2000, he began substitute teaching in rural school districts around Wichita and received his Bachelor’s Degree, with honors, from Friend’s University. Ray then started writing a weekly light-humor newspaper column titled “Grizzly’s This ‘N That” for several papers which was also the title of his first book … a memoir.
After a few years of writing his columns he decided to compile his favorite ones, into a book with multiple pics that pertained to the columns. "You're telling me this ... because" came out as his second book. It's different, fun and sometimes funny. He and his lovely and loving wife, Lynda, gave up living in the "sticks" and bought a home in Wichita, Kansas. He missed being in the country and thought he would quit working hard jobs and settle down to be a writer, but it didn't happen. Griz figured that "retirement" was taken out of the dictionary and replaced with "tired".
Griz' loves in life are Lynda, his wife, who heads the list, followed by "man's best friends", being outdoors in the Colorado mountains and being a substitute teacher in the rural schools around Wichita.
