Nolesrock's Blog

I've been talking to my bus driver, Connie, who runs the SouthWood Route. She's also a full-time minister who, in addition to shuttl...

I started telling our story on Facebook in a closed group for our family. I'm trying to tell our family story, so that my nieces a...

A lot of folks are complaining about this past year--lost love, lost family, lost celebs...yes, 2016 sucked as a whole for all those reasons...

TALLAHASSEE - Power failed post-Hurricane Hermine and the lights went out, too. The power structure of city-county government failed to serv...

Just found an emotional letter I wrote to my mom on the day I turned 45 back in 2013. It was a difficult letter to write as we had not ...

Just finished the first draft of a 22-page short story, working title, "Nips, Rube & Stein." Here is an excerpt... The l...

This morning, I came to the Thurston branch of my family tree, which shoots off from the Greeks and McCormicks of Gibson County, Indiana. Fo...

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...