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I love music. It has played a role in my life since day one. My father, Max, was a singer and instrumentalist. As long as I can remember, Dad played guitar, piano, and many other stringed instruments. He also performed with several Southern Gospel singing groups over the years. Some of the greatest memories of…

Sound the alarm, sound the alarm! A potential storm is coming, and everybody must panic! More like sound the false alarm. That is the state of society these days. With the winter storm coming this week everybody is running around buying up all the toilet paper, bottled water, milk, bread, and other staples. I guess…

There is a strange contradiction at the heart of the human experience. If you ask a room full of people whether they want to live to be one hundred years old, most will raise their hands. But to ask those same people if they are excited about getting old, the room usually goes silent. We…

When we think of slaves, we do not think of our modern-day society. When we think of slaves, we think of people who are in bondage to someone else. In reality, most of society is obedient slaves to the government in one way or another. We pay taxes on money we make, while paying taxes…

Seemingly, the tree and decorations from Christmas last year were just tucked away into storage the week before, when everything had to be pulled out for this season’s observance. With that come all the headache, stress, and anxiety of the holidays. Oddly enough, the children become the central focus as everything is directed toward granting…

The Red Shoes is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson published in 1845. A peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother dies. Before her mother dies, Karen has a homemade, rough-looking pair of red shoes. After she is adopted, she gets the old lady to buy…

I recently came upon an interesting quote credited to the late boxing champion that provided a glimpse into the rarely publicized philosophical outlook of Ali’s thought process. He is, arguably, one of the best professional boxers who ever laced up a pair of gloves but fans are seldom allowed access to the incredible mind behind…

Convenience and safety are good things that we like and want in our modern society. They are both needed, but in moderation. The government uses our fears, wants, and needs for everything to be quick and easy to make us weak and lazy. They use every crisis to take a little more of our freedoms…