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When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered, "Go home and love your family."

Many people in Haiti are faced with a difficult choice. Having left everything behind in last month’s devastating earthquake, thousands are living with only the clothes on their backs.

In the 1980’s I was privileged visit Haiti twice. I found the Haitian people to be clean, modest, and hard working. One month after the devastating earthquake, in a hot Caribbean climate, people are faced with the choice of wearing the clothes on their backs, even though unclean and smelly, or going naked while they wash their clothes.

When I first decided to accept Maria Stuart's offer to blog at LivingstonTalk.com, I had a long LivingstonTalk with myself about where the line was between writing about my work as a concert promoter, and what I might consider abusing my journalistic powers and using my blogger status to simply be a sounding board for my company.  Today, I walk that line very closely.  I'm going to tell you about something close to my heart, and if I cross the line just a little, it's in the spirit of the subject matter.  Forgive me.

It makes perfect sense having a student design the poster for a student art exhibit at The Opera House. In this case, that's just what happened for Got Art 2010.

My church is very nice. They have the best church coffee in the county, sometimes they play bluegrass music in the preschool area, and there is a swimming pool on the premises. But they don’t have a zoo, although when I am in charge of the four- year-olds it usually looks and feels like a zoo in that particular classroom.

I recently had the good fortune to pick up a copy of the Kinks Choral Collection, a new CD of classic songs by the highly esteemed English rock band The Kinks. The songs performed by the group’s main songwriter Ray Davies and a band (The Kinks disbanded in 1996) and a large choir.

Madame Arcati is back in town! And the great Arcati will soon be doing her crazy thing onstage at Howell High School as they are gearing up for a blast from the past with their production of "Blithe Spirit" to be performed March 19 , 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. and March 21 at 2 p.m. 

This winter has been especially long, hasn’t it? On Thursday, I was driving down the road, in the same winter trance I’ve been in for months, and I flipped to the Detroit sports station, to listen to the same sports talk I listen to every day, and I heard a crowd cheering, and the crack of a bat. Baseball is back!

It was all of a sudden that I also noticed that the sun was shining. Brightly. And it was warm. I even cracked the window for a few minutes.

**Editor's note: This piece repeatedly uses a sanitized version of a commonly used profanity.**

While going through a second interview with the Howell Public Schools Board of Education during a public meeting on Wednesday, superintendent candidate Ron Wilson used the word, “a--hole.”

Now, he used the word only when pressed to do so. And it wasn’t in the context of “Oh, (insert name here), I hear you’re an a--hole,” or, “Can you speak up, a--hole?"