Chronic pain remains an illness that doesn't exist in the minds of far too large a segment of society.

"every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself, and the artist who plays that country false has committed suicide..."

It's far easier to think you know your enemy than to try and know yourself.

Logic has become the latest casualty in our world of political expediency. What will be next?

Few of us are willing to "walk a mile in another's shoes" any more to try to understand another person's viewpoint.

This is my attempt to explain my confusion and the origin of what must appear to most of you as my bizarre way of thinking.

Everybody knows about the casualties anyway; diminishing their importance only insults their memory and cheapens their sacrifice.

Try to have an objective opinion on something you've put so much sweat into.

If they could harness this energy, no one would ever worry about gas prices again.

"It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence." Frank Sinatra.