Nolesrock's Blog

My Christianity has been leaning more left, if you will, since about 2005 after I got disenfranchised with the Pentecostal movement that see...

DISCLAIMER: I do not suffer from "white guilt." I do not write from a place of utter guilt for the way my black brothers have been...

Like many pioneering Indiana farm families, the Farmers came north for the promise of new, uncultivated lands in the emerging Indiana Territ...

#blacklivesmatter It's sad that we have to have a campaign with the above hashtag. But it's sadder, still, that we see black l...

I've started a new blog, a place where I can wax political: http://wrongcapitalism.blogspot.com It was berthed out of this political...

Why today, you may ask? No special reason. This isn't September 11th, it's not an anniversary or a day for remembrance. But it is...

Last Sunday, I checked in at GoodSam on Facebook  with a status, "Being church with Makenna." That's my youngest daughter and ...

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...