Category: Worldview

  • Keeping an Indie Soul in a Pop World

    I love indie music. There’s something special about finding an artist who’s relatively unknown and connecting with their message. Sure, sometimes it sounds a bit rough or unpolished, but that honesty and grittiness is what draws me to the genre in the first place. There’s no pretense because there’s no pressure from a big label…

  • The Death of Literacy

    I have fond memories of visiting the public library with my mom when I was growing up.  In our town of Traverse City, Michigan, there was what my child’s mind considered to be a huge library, and perhaps it was.  With multiple levels of books and media, grassy outdoors areas, puppets, and a train model…