A Crazy Dream About Obama (Or Was It?)

I couldn’t believe it when I awoke this morning, that I’d dreamed about Obama!    Since I seldom remember my dreams, this was a shock, but the significance of the dream, which at first seemed silly, began to dawn on me as dawn lightened the sky.
First of all, he was riding what appeared to be motorized [...]

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 [...]

From the Raped Mountains of Appalachia:Perspective on the Bailout

Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes, I’ll say this, I don’t give a damn about your dreams      Bob Dylan, Thunder on the Mountain

Feel like my soul is beginning to expand, look into my heart and you will understand.
You brought me here, now you’re trying to run me away, [...]

Hillary: Can We Un-Ring the Ding Dong Bell?

Now that Barack Obama is finally being vetted by the fawning press and their vitriolic treatment of Hillary has subsided somewhat, is it too late? Can a bell be un-rung? This is the question we face in the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana tomorrow night, the results of which may produce at least a [...]

Sermons on Hate: Wright and Obama

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – Robert Collier
Who is this man running for president of our country? Even the thought of Obama getting elected is so appalling I cannot believe he [...]

Appalachian Rhapsody–God’s Comic Intervention

Out of the void of darkness came the Big Boom and another mountaintop in Appalachia tumbled down the mountainside, buried a graveyard, filled up a stream and killed a fish. The fish asked why but nobody answered. A small boy heard and looked up at the old man sitting on a cloud, coughing and waving [...]

Obama’s Wishing Well is Going Dry

The pundits seem to be missing the point about Barack Obama using his friend’s words, whether he had permission or not. The point is that his overwhelming acceptance by the people is in response to supposedly spontaneous messages from his heart. Messages that are uplifting yet give us very few facts to chew on. If [...]

The Human Condition: Poop Has Always Been With Us

Woe am I, the haunted, beset by fates unkind; blessed with a royal demeanor and cursed with a common behind – the human complaint
Not long after my first husband and I were married we found we both liked to read in bed. One night he was reading a history about ancient Rome and I was [...]

Eight Days on Sand Key

Normally, when it’s zero degrees in Iowa and snow covers the ground I want nothing more than to hibernate indoors while admiring the winter wonderland through my frosty windows. However, during the recent cold spell, I received an invitation to spend eight days as a guest on Sand Key, compelling me to brave the frigid temperature [...]

Is Your Soul Stored in the Rafters?

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited – whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution” – Albert Einstein
As a child I often imagined a door in my mind. Even though it was closed, from underneath it a golden light beckoned, trying to entice me to open it. [...]