Nolesrock's Blog

Defining Terms and Values hu·man·ism noun an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine o...

It was January 2009 and I had been reading the NY Times Best-Seller, Three Cups of Tea , after seeing it's author interviewed on CBS Sun...

If I could start any non-profit I wanted tomorrow, I think it would be an educational program to treat middle-aged (and older) white males i...

We ascribe value to so many things, important and unimportant. We apply labels--good or bad, sacred or evil, worthy or unworthy. Think about...

As I blogged last week about  Roe v. Wade , the precedent-setting Supreme Court case from 1973, I believed my case for upholding this nearl...

Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Due Process Clause o...

I started playing drums around 1978 before I was 10 years old. It must've been around that time my Uncle Greg, who was more a big b...

In the age of YouTube and social media, blogging seems to be a thing of the past, but I began this blog on this very week of April 2005. Har...

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...