Obama and the Ocean of Myth

“The old Chinese saying is fitting: the plans of man are no match for the plans of the heavens. What people must now ask is, can Obama become the proverbial hero made by the times?”  Watching America by Tao Wenzhao November 5, 2008
In a recent comment to a post in which I said McCain would [...]

The Inauguration: Champagne in DC Beer Here

You know that old saying – champagne taste and beer money. “
Well, the champagne will be flowing in DC next week (while Michelle dazzles us with her new clothes). Meantime, the rest of us are out of beer money. The new administration should be ashamed of the ostentatious display the press is going gaga over. [...]

Andy Adams – Kentucky Coal

The above video of an interview with my brother Andy Adams of Hazard, Kentucky in Appalachia took place twenty-seven years ago when he was fifty years old, and had achieved the American Dream.
His photo on the cover of my family book Stories of a Kentucky Mountain Family was taken when he was just [...]