This Week On BROADSIDED – “In A Town This Size” with Patrick Brown
"In A Town This Size" Bartlesville, Oklahoma in the 60's and 70's was pretty much like every other small town in America. They were family-oriented, church-going people with small town values and it seemed idyllic from the outside looking in. It would be years before...
Beach Royalty: Queens of Southern Soul
It’s a collaboration of the top female beach music voices ranging from young to old(er). The Queens of Southern Soul is a project between thirteen performers throughout the Southeast with unique voices and styles coming together to create one album titled Back by...
So You Wanna’ Be A Star?
So get over it! You’re not going to get discovered sitting on a stool at the local soda fountain anymore, ‘cause there aren’t any! You’re not going to be walking down the street and a guy will hand you a business card and say, “I can make you a star!” No, it doesn’t...
Be Daring and Be Different
Seed: Be whomever it is you thought you could never be, and go there. You will become alive, and that is what the world needs above all else. This post originally appeared on PlantingWisdom.org
Don’t let your creativity kill you. Whitney, can you hear me now?
I think I missed the late news only three times in the last thirty years. So I got the tragic news that John Lennon had been murdered and Princess Diana had been killed after having the last peaceful night of sleep for a while in both cases. Yesterday morning when I...
Would a Rose by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
Would a Rose by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? My guest this week will certainly have the answer to that and much much more... Imagine this: You arrive at work as usual, as you have been doing for the last "however long" and you have human resources waiting for you......
Take a Sip of That Barleyjuice
Continuing my exploration of different genres of music, I’ve already dabbled into Carolina Beach music, and this past weekend I ventured into a reggae bar (which was a huge explosion of dreadlocks, but totally awesome). Now, this next genre isn’t foreign to me. I’ve...
Journey to Peruvian Wilds ~ Shamans & Adventurers: Online Wed., 11am EST
On a trip to the Amazon, famed explorer and wildlife handler Rusty Johnson was bit by a bug that injected eggs into his finger. For more than a year, tiny worms hatched under his skin and bore their way out. U.S. doctors were stumped, so Rusty returned to the jungle...
She loves to write, but forgets what she is doing. A reader laments
I recently got a question from FP. I am going to call her Francoise Peach Francoise claims she has a focusing problem. She loves to write, but when she sits down to write; she loses her focus and forgets where she is going with her writing. Ms. Peach, it sounds like...