Last week I got into a conversation about the Shaker religious sect that participated in shared living quarters, shared work, and celibacy. It made me consider why they prospered for a while and why they stopped existing. I now reflect on the Amish that live around south-central Kentucky and how…

I think the definition of misery is a hot muggy day in the southeastern United States. I don’t know what it is like in other hot regions around the globe, but the hot summers in Kentucky have to be among the most miserable. You’ve heard the phrase, “Its not so…

If you take a good long look at world history and ask yourself the question “What has endured throughout history?” you would quickly have to answer that it would be religions. Religions have outlasted everything else. Why? Because it is about being a member of something bigger than yourself that…

When I write these blogs, I am not ever stating with any confidence that what I write should be considered true or a proven fact. I know that creativity isn’t based on “what is” but on “what could be”.  In fact, when I was doing readings or a workshop, I…

Protesting is a “Right” guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States of America. In fact it is guaranteed by the government as part of the sweeping and possibly the most daring statement ever produced by a government in history and is the number the 1 and most important Amendment…