Nolesrock's Blog

We all experience dark periods in our life. Mine have come at different times, caused by different circumstances and challenges. But my musi...

I haven't expressed many religious views in some time and that was partly the basis for this blog which began in 2005 or thereabouts. An...

I'm no good at this anymore...not the blogging. In fact, since I've been confiding so much in my journal, I hardly find time to writ...

Just found this Drum Talk video honoring drumming idol Jeff Porcaro, of Toto fame, and it reminded me of the first time I saw someone demons...

In August 2015, I wrote my "200+ Years in Indiana," post documenting the family of Duston & Louisa Mills, which included thre...

I've always been a fan of the Jimmy Dean Pancake Sausage breakfast rollups on a sick. You know, the ones that look like a Pancake Corn ...

When black athletes sit, kneel or stand in protest, they are quickly shouted down by the angry white masses. This is nothing new in this cou...

Breast cancer awareness is the theme of the month of October...as if I needed the reminder. Ever since 2015, the month of November and, spec...

In 1789, when the Bill of Rights was written, the woman in this photo really had no first amendment rights. Those were extended to white ...

I cannot tell if this place is a God-forsaken hellhole or shithole. I think both descriptions fit Tallahassee. I moved away in December 20...

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...