Nolesrock's Blog

Heard on this morning's news that the U.S. economy is doing better than expected...but then again, what did you expect the government to...

It was our Christian European forebears who first landed on America's shoreline, and the white colonists who followed, that cemented our...

I have a friend who is a chronic worrier. She blogged about it yesterday and my comment went as follows: I think that I have a normal amo...

I know I've posted a lot of heavy and negative stuff lately, like my socio-politico-religious rants, so I wanted to post some...

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...