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I love to cook and bake. And I spend a lot of my time thinking about, and creating new recipes. You might say that the Kitchen is my Happy Place.

For me, cooking and baking are forms of “moving mediation”, involving all five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. The sensing organs associated with each of these send information to our brain and our conscious movement helps calm the mind while it’s focused on the present moment.

Not all of the recipes shown are my own creation. Some were handed down by family members, or shared with me by friends. Some are modified, others are not. Most of these, though, are my own creation.

For a full list of my recipes, please click on the menu bar ( ☰ ) found on the upper left of this page.

If you’re looking for a specific recipe, the search icon on the upper right works pretty darn well too.

When I solely focus on the true teachings of Jesus, as written in the Gospels of Luke and Thomas:

06 Friday Feb 2026

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“I have a public confession to make. I am an unbeliever. Let me explain.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is an external, superior, and separate being who must be pleased, obeyed, or reconciled with.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation for the dominance of patriarchy.

I am an unbeliever in a religious “God” who offers love that is conditional, revocable, and dependent on belief, purity, or obedience.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who condemns people to eternal conscious torment for not believing the correct theology.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who baits the first two human beings into an act of disobedience, which results in a world of suffering.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who requires devotion to one book of ancient writings as the sole source of truth.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who orchestrates the scenario of a fallen world, requiring the blood sacrifice of the son to fix it.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who demands faith in doctrines and beliefs that defy reason, intuition, humanity, and critical thinking.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who divinely anoints men with special qualities and rights to have authority over women.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” whose cosmic salvation plan is Jesus on a white horse and Armageddon to end the world.

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who adds conditions and qualifications for love and acceptance.

So yes, I am an unbeliever in ‘that’ “God”. The good news is that we made that “God” up, and there are other ways of conceiving “God” that don’t require the above beliefs. In my view, even Jesus did not believe in ‘that’ “God”.

The religious version of God is only one culturally inherited model—an external, judging, separate authority—and it’s far from the only way humans have understood the sacred. Once that framework loosens, people discover that “God” can also name immanence, connection, mystery, depth, or the more‑than‑human world. Letting go of the religious God doesn’t erase meaning; it opens space for forms of spirituality and belonging that aren’t built on fear, hierarchy, or separation.”

Jim Palmer

Bands/Musicians I’ve seen Perform Live

26 Friday Dec 2025

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(I’ll add more if I think of any)

REO Speedwagon

James Gang (post Joe Walsh)

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks

It’s a Beautiful Day

Black Oak Arkansas

Santana

Huey Lewis

Uriah Heep

Emerson Lake and Palmer

Dr Hook and the Medicine Show

Lynyrd Skynyrd 2x

Journey 2x

Kansas 2x

CSNY 2x

CSN

Grand Funk Railroad

Led Zepplin

Canned Heat

Marshall Tucker Band

Dan Fogelberg

Buddy Guy

Albert King

Heart

Paul McCartney

John Mellencamp

Neil Young

James Taylor

Cat Stevens

Elton John

Goliathon

The Species

YES (post Jon Anderson)

Dream Theatre

Iron Maiden

Zappa plays Zappa (Dweezil)

Rush

Mötley Crüe

Who’s writing this?…..

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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You and I are a continuation of those who came before us, shaped by the social environment and culture we were born into.

With that in mind, I present to you a relatively short list of pertinent details about me:

  • I’m a blend of Scottish, Irish, and British Heritage; born during  the “baby boom” to a lower middle class family.
  • Once in America, my family settled in the south. We were farmers and bee keepers.
  • Ancestry.com and written family records confirm that, I’m also of Native American (Cherokee) heritage.
  • I am a direct descendant of Cherokee, “Yellow Bird Trail Killer”; born in his bloodline through his daughter “Yellow Bird” (aka Nancy Pack – Jenkins).
  • My forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War, WW-1, and WW-2.
  • My mother was 15 years old when I was conceived, and 16 when I was born. (Just 7 months to the day after my parents were married).
  • I have 3 younger siblings (2 are still living). My parents divorced when I was 16 — My father was not a part of my life again until many years later.
  • I didn’t go to college. When I graduated from high school, I was making more money than my mom and usually had the only running car in the family.
  • I have 4 sons, 7 grandchildren, and 2 great granddaughters.
  • I love God, my wife, my family, music, and kind people.
  • I’m a firm believer that there is an abundance of opportunity all around us, if only we choose to see it.  
  • I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in late June of 2017, experienced a heart attack in late April of 2022, and although I would have preferred to continue working, I retired in May of 2024, because it was the right thing to do.
  • I enjoy the memories of my past, but I don’t live there.
  • I do my best to learn from my mistakes….and I don’t look back…..ever. 
  • I read and write a lot, and oh….I Love to Cook.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~ John F. Kennedy

Updated 6.5.24