I opened the box, fresh from San Francisco, to see what my brother and sister-in-law had sent me for my birthday. Organic barley tea and a painting done by Steve of a scene in Yosemite, which holds an eerie coincidence. In the painting, four deer graze in a meadow and drink deeply from glistening streams. […]
About 1965 was the last time I saw Jeannette. I was ten and she was 18. Now I’m 60 and only recently I’ve been searching for my half-sister. An obituary is a sad place to end. She died in 2012 at the age of 65. It was the same year when an intuitive itch came […]
A rare writing experience on Cape Cod with Suzette Standring using meditative recall to mine memories. Saturday, July 18, 2015 Escape to the Cape Writing Workshop Using Hypnotic Recall to Create Spellbinding Stories East Falmouth, MA (address to be given to registrants) 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Limited to 20 Attendees; $95.00 Lunch included Summer […]
Holding on to Jesus Christ in the darkest of hours is the bond among families whose loved ones were gunned down during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17. Many unfamiliar with the Bible may think it archaic. Yet in the unspeakable tragedy of the Charleston […]
Father’s Day. For those with loving fathers, it’s a time of gratitude. For others who don’t know their dads, it hurts. A single mom told me, “I’ll never get married. I’d rather raise my kids alone. I don’t need some man making my life miserable.” I said, “Maybe you feel that way because you’ve never […]