“Perfect Love” – An Antidote for All that Ails Us
The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings, as I’ve come to understand, is Love. That is, …
Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
Houseless, not Homeless
Once when I was part of an effort to end homelessness in our community, one of the participants who had …
“A Strange and Beautiful” Entanglement
Recently, when most needed, I came across the essay “A Beautiful and Strange Otherness” by Wisdom Bridge founder, Francis Weller. …
Music for Sailing Among the Stars
One of my poems has been set to music. An amazing composer, Troy Armstrong, emailed me earlier this year and …
True Ghost Stories, Part VII – Do I Believe This Stuff? “You know nothing, Jon Snow”
I haven’t experienced any hauntings or paranormal activity since the “demon” sitting on my chest eventually scurried away. If you …
True Ghost Stories, Part VI – Evil Incarnate
The dark creatures that haunt our dreams and come to us as waking nightmares take many shapes or forms, but …
True Ghost Stories, Part V – A Demon on My Chest
Have you ever awoken from sleep to find yourself paralyzed with fear as something dark and evil sitting on your …
True Ghost Stories, Part IV – Resident Evil: In the Belly of the Beast
We felt so fortunate. Dale had a job in San Francisco that summer, and his Uncle who lived nearby asked …
True Ghost Stories, Part III – When the Dead Refuse to Leave
My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. My grandmother Margaret had a hard life. Widowed in …
True Ghost Stories, Part II – Attack of the Poltergeist
It’s a blessing I think now that I never knew as a child that a woman whose blood still stained …
