Cissna Park man's needs met without leaving home

CISSNA PARK – Richard Henry Rieches wakes up at that dark, pre-dawn hour that hovers between day and night. He sits up, stretches, glances around the bedroom – the same bedroom his father used to wake up in. He looks out the window. The stubborn darkness reveals no hint of the day ahead.

He stands slowly, then pads out the door and down the stairs. They still creak all the way to the bottom. He turns the corner and stands in the kitchen, where his mother used to bake coffee cake from scratch. She always served it fresh, right out of the pan.

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