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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The View From the Crypt

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines, it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines – Miner’s song
I’m trying to find my sense of humor. I seem to lose it this time of year but I know it’s around here someplace, probably in the passage in my brain known as [...]

God, the American Dream and the Select Few

It’s not enough that the rich have co-opted the American Dream. Now they are trying to co-opt God. Forget all that stuff about the poor inheriting the earth, it being easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than to get into Heaven, or that Christ tossed the usurers out [...]