Nolesrock's Blog

So this is the post I either missed or didn't want to consider last July... At the time, I had just returned from visiting my moth...

The Great Flood of 1937 hit the Ohio River Valley hard in mid-late January after 12 days of rain caused every tributary to over top their ba...

Today's pioneer history lesson takes us back to 1799 and Gibson County's oldest known settler, Keen Field. I was transported back in...

In keeping with my Indiana Bicentennial theme, here is the profile of another pioneer ancestor from my Scot-Irish roots on mom's side. ...

I don't have a photo of her, but then again, she died in 1877, so the headstone will have to do. Mary Mills-White is my 5th great ...

When my friends or those who suffer white angst tell me that I'm just suffering "white guilt," I'm going to show them this...

I asked and answered my own question in the headline. "What brought us the Trumpinator? White angst." This blog post examines how ...

It's Lent and the exercise is pretty self-explanatory. I wrote myself the first note on Ash Wednesday (yesterday) after finding thi...

Well, it's been a couple of days since my Mom passed. A lot of activity--phone calls, e-mails, FB posts galore, getting ready for the me...

Now that I've had 24 hours to process Mom's death, I'm ready to talk about it. I guess I'm just more of a spiritual person...

It's probably not good to mix your pancake batter with tears, but that's nearly where I was this morning. And it's got me feelin...

NO MAS!

When I had a brief talk with a friend, yesterday, he told me he was getting his priorities in order--God, family, music--and that they'd...

Wow, how time flies. I began this blog as an outlet...for my spirituality, creativity, love of music and football...back in a time in my l...

My ancestral roots in Gibson County go back to pioneer times back when Indiana was still a territory. I've spent countless hours researc...

Is this flag offensive to you? It is to me. And with all the debate surrounding it's use of late, I thought it a good time...

Sorry but please allow me to vent...from my bench in the Tampa airport...where I'll probably spend the night. I should have been hitti...

I'm going to post a parable of sorts. You know parables...the Bible is full of them. Well, in this parable a 500-lb man goes to church...

Let me just say that I'm not a gun rights advocate. I've never owned weapons of any kind, unless you count the rustic bow and arrow ...

Since writing about Hashbrown Jesus last week, I've gotten a lot of positive response about that post. My family especially liked it. I...