The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust. At the end of the nineteenth century, when Proust was still in his teens, he answered a questionnaire in an English-language confession album belonging [...]

Our friend Jeremy made another great video.  This time of a country band no less – well they are sort of country.  Anyway, we, along with Michael Moore, collaborated on this hi def extravaganza of rock and southern exposure. Narrative: I didn’t see it coming.  For crying out loud, all I was doing was checking [...]

“Wooden Heart” by Listener We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living and since that first breath… We’ll need grace that we’ve never given I’ve been haunted by standard red devils and white ghosts and it’s not only when these eyes are closed these lies are ropes that I tie [...]

Let me lament for forgetting daily to heed creativity’s call, And may I be cleansed from the deceit of the mundane, Because the lure of life dulled me and appealed to reason alone. Grant that I be salted with new ideas, With every dream tempered from my soul, Every passion fitted excellently to opportunity, To [...]

These unforgettable and timeless “Budism’s” from Bud Royer of Royers Cafe, Round Top, TX will help you get through life in a more enjoyable way! “The greatest achievements were at first, and for some time, dreams.” — James Allen “A lot of people can tell you what to do but very few can tell you why they do [...]

Many of you have asked about our annual Memorial Day Italian Feast. Here is how you can utilize any holiday or special occasion to have an all-day celebration of your own. It is definitely counter-cultural. It may seem un-American. But spending an entire day eating and drinking with friends is one of the most spiritual things you can [...]

My new friend Bud Royer and his team at Royers Round Top Cafe have a worthy OBJECTIVE: To ship a Royers’ pie, “THE ULTIMATE SLICE OF HOME!!!”, to 1000s of our brave fighting troops serving overseas for July 4th and 5,000 for Thanksgiving & Christmas …. THEY ARE ALREADY AT 450 PIES FOR THE 4TH!!! Be a part [...]

Alone Together by Sherrry Turkle (Why we expect more from technology and less from each other.) A riveting and often disturbing portrait of the future by America’s leading expert on how computers affect us as humans. Turn off your e-mail and smartphones and read this book the old fashioned way. You’ll thank me. Cognitive Surplus [...]

The dance of success, that is. The tango of today. The flamenco of good fortune. Chances are—if you have experienced success in life, someone provided the opportunity for your “big break.” For me it was a man named Jack Price. Jack is a boisterous music evangelist from Texas. We are as different as night and [...]

The day I moved to Nashville in the Spring of 2000 after twenty years in South Florida, my head began spinning. A few weeks before while playing golf with my new Pastor and boss, I asked about my responsibilities on the first Sunday. He casually told me that someone else would be leading the music, [...]

Samui Art Gallery, an art blog in Thailand recently did a featured post about me. Here is an excerpt: “Whatever business you run these days, you cannot expect the growth without implementation of social media marketing component in your business plan. And this is no exception for art business. And since we are in art [...]