By Butch Freedman Let’s start here: each morning that I wake up and I’m still breathing and mobile, I count as a win. After that, I go check out the surf from…
Category: Guest Column
BUTCH’S BLOG: Bad Bunny vs. the Evil Empire
By Butch Freedman That trump fellow, you know, the one whose brain is made of Diet Coke and McDonald’s french fries. Yeah, that one, the clown conspirator, the one with all the…
The Power of Love Still Works – Community Prayer Gathering at White Clover Grange Feb. 14
By LaNicia Duke Many of us can feel it. We know we are in the midst of a shift. We bear the pain of the earth. We know it is not just…
We are the “Illegal” Immigrants Here …
By Jamie Corvus Thank you to those who allowed yourselves to be touched by my last piece of writing. And there were so many of you. Stay with me, if you will. We…
BOOK REVIEW: Caste – The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
I started this review for “Black History Month”, but soon realized the book was more than a book about blacks. Caste refers to the process where a society identifies a portion of…
WORDS OF WISDOM: What Is The 25th Amendment?
By Neal Lemery Recent political commentary mentions the use of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, raising the specter of removing the president from power for reasons of incapacity or disability. What is…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: The Price of Corruption
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.” – Thomas Jefferson By Marc C. Johnson The dizzying blizzard of corruption surrounding the White…
BUTCH’S BLOG: I Cast You Out
By Butch Freedman I realize that lately I’ve allowed myself to be caught in the spider web of horrible news from horrible people. And I’m not going to allow them to do…
Sharing Words to Inspire Courage
By Jamie Corvus We are being asked to hold so much, more than ever, it seems. I have done a lot of personal work over the years deconstructing in myself the lies…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Crying Out in the Wilderness
By Butch Freedman I wish I didn’t have to write about Trump. Wish I didn’t have to call him out and call him names and declare his radical incompetence, his ever-increasing insanity….