This review first appeared at The Englewood Review of Books. I confess a personal stake in wanting to read and review The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife by Ben Katt. That personal stake is, simply, that I myself would be considered a part of Katt’s target audience. I turned 45 just aContinue reading “Book Review: The Way Home by Ben Katt”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
Music Is the Spirit’s Medicine
I cannot remember a time when music has not been a central piece of my life. Along with drawing and later theatre, music got me through my school years. Since that time, writing has overtaken drawing, but music has remained alongside it as my companions and comfort. Whenever I’ve needed an artistic voice for joyContinue reading “Music Is the Spirit’s Medicine”
Johnnie Walker Spirituality
As I made my way through every Oscar nominee for Best Picture the past couple of months, the movie American Fiction stood out as one of my favorites. It stars the incomparable Jeffrey Wright as a struggling author who becomes so frustrated with what kind of Black art sells that he fires off a satiricalContinue reading “Johnnie Walker Spirituality”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 