by Phil Houseal | Apr 22, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
April 22, 2020–OK, old timers, help me out here. Have we become intimidated by weather? Having lived everywhere from the hurricane coast to tornado alley to the blizzardy backwoods, I’ve seen (and suffered through) my share of nasty storms. In the middle of one...
by Phil Houseal | Apr 15, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
April 15, 2020–If your life were a novel, would you bother to read it? If there were only two chords, we’d still have polka. Folks didn’t used to need a federal mandate not to get within 6 feet of me. In Ernest Tubb’s song “Thanks A Lot,” he rhymes “a lot” with “a...
by Phil Houseal | Apr 8, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
April 8, 2020–One of the few times I was the interviewee rather than the interviewer, the person asked me, what is writing? I replied, writing is thinking on paper. Full-time thinker Seth Godin said it better: “Writing is a symptom of thinking.” I like that, though it...
by Phil Houseal | Mar 28, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
April 1, 2020–Why do paths get such a bad reputation? In all those cringy memes and inspirational posters you see the tanned and toned traveler choosing to set off on the unbeaten path, blazing a new trail through the Forest of Confusion, across the Sea of Setbacks,...
by Phil Houseal | Mar 25, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
Mar 25, 2020–A year ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece about how inefficient it was to transport our bags of bones around the world for meetings, conferences, and vacations. What if, I wondered, we could accomplish those travels virtually, saving the hassles and...
by Phil Houseal | Mar 18, 2020 | All Articles, Events, Music, Philosophy, Venue
Mar 18, 2020–After an exciting ride up the music charts, where he sold 200,000 albums, and hit the Top 30 on Billboard’s Country Album chart and Top Ten on its Independent Album chart, Cory Morrow was wondering what to do next. He decided to ask his fans what...
