“Perfect Love” – All We Need for What Ails Us
The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings is Love. Love with a capital L, meaning that …
Category Archives: Family
Romancing Europe – Coming Soon!
The last time I was in Europe we were sailing on La Gitana. We came up the Red Sea, through …
Mothering the World, A Tall Order
My novel From the Far Ends of the Earth is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways …
Right, at Last, and Wide Open
I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …
A Walk on the Wild Side – For People Who Love Addicts
A few years ago I started an anonymous blog with the above title to talk about addiction. About trying to …
“Truth & Love Wins” Redux
I am happy to report that at least in one very narrow slice of life, truth and love has indeed …
Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known
As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
“Wondrously Strange,” Our Crossing to the Marquesas
I was reading from some of my old sailing journals when I came across this entry. It captures …
O Holy Night, Ablaze in Light
Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is …
