Faith gives you the courage to take that first step. Or to get back up and brush yourself off. Faith is believing in something even though you can't see it.Faith can make you strong, even when you feel weak. Faith can make a child continue to love even after being hurt. Faith can make a person go back, for yet another chemo…See More

Ravens Ballroom is the trendsetting New York based band that has been playing in local venues and electrifying fans with songs from their new EP. The band is comprised of Matthew Ravens (songwriter, vocals, lyricist, producer, and guitar), Simi Ravens (bass, vocals, songwriter, and guitar) and Jon Rosenbaum (drums, percussion). This spring brings the long awaited EP Rain Dance to fruition and as the first notes glided out of my speakers I’m pretty sure my eyes rolled back into my head out of…See More

Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee...  I tilt my head to my right shoulder, listening... watching, studying... life; everything that is life; everything around me.  I wonder, I think, I feel, care, love; even hate, dislike......... I grieve, no matter what I do; no matter how happy, sad.  I go on with life knowing my son, my only child is gone... forever.  Not only do I…See More

Chapter 5- The Reality Show I am a six or seven out of 10 on the scale of self-esteem.I am not some teenage girl on the Disney Channel who writes in a diary and cries about a boy who doesn’t like her. No, that’s not deep enough. That downgrades my issues.I don’t have a diary.I don’t write, “Dear diary, so-and-so doesn’t like me back.”No – when I have a bad day, I scream, punch pillows, and listen to angry music at the highest volume until everything else fades away.Or I smoke weed.Or, I used to…See More

How good to you want to feel about life and its living? How good of a place do you want to make your world, THE world? This speaks to inside and out, emotionally, physically, even spiritually, and in the broader world...one reflecting upon the other, back and forth in its intrinsic formulaic dynamic. Please know these notions (within the Bright Beautiful School of Thought/Ming Chia) are in no way set forth in an unhealthful spirit of haughtiness...accordingly congruent with the Same Boat…See More