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My background is as follows: I am a Master's level teacher-counselor, poet-essayist and advocate for the poor whose poetry and prose have been published in more than sixty periodicals. My opinion pieces have been published in The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC, The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), and The Sun-News (Santa Fe, NM). Five of my letters have been published in USA Today.
During 2008 I did grassroots work for the Barack Obama campaign in South and North Carolina, counseled the homeless at the Winter Shelter in Columbia and engaged in homebound teaching of expelled students in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
My politics are moderate-liberal, I suppose. I am a Conscientious Objector who advocated for an end to detainee abuse for Amnesty International and wrote hundreds of letters to public officials regarding this outrage. I also was a civil rights worker in the South during the 1960s.
I currently live in South Carolina with my wife, Linda.
Sunday, March 15, 2009 Forget Yourself in the Performance
In this article, I discuss the importance of taking the focus off yourself when performing music. Focus on communication and your listener, and the performance will take off.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Civil rights, past and present
In this diary entry, I discuss an event related to the civil rights movement in Florida in 1962, as well as current civil rights concerns...
Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Arc of the Story of How We Treat Others Extends Way Back (4 comments)
In this article, I explain how current involvement in effecting social change is related to past life experience, extending back to childhood.
