“Oh, give it a rest, for Christ’s sake,” the ego triumphantly scoffed. “Can’t you see it’s gone? For freaking ever! Just like everyone and thing else around this sorry burg.” I tossed another empty purse I’d plucked from the closet onto the bed in despair. I’d been ransacking the house again, desperately trying (really, is […]

I sat in my little car in a parking space outside my bank’s ATM machine, not even bothering to rationalize the environmental folly of continuing to run the engine while I unsuccessfully tried to pry myself away from an NPR story. One of those much touted “driveway moments” alluded to at pledge time, designed to […]

(Just back from helping my daughter relocate to Seattle following her May college graduation and a family vacation and still processing the bittersweet transition happening for us these last few weeks as the roles we play in this dream of life change. In the meantime, I thought I’d post this excerpt from my new book, […]

(I’m taking some time off for a family vacation following my daughter’s graduation from college and then helping her relocate. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this excerpt from my new book, Forgiveness: The Key to Happiness!) “… Whenever fear intrudes anywhere along the road to peace, it is because the ego has attempted to […]

I sat in my office, eyes shut, contemplating the searing possibility–gradually morphing into an inevitable probability–that “I do not perceive my own best interests,” as A Course in Miracles workbook Lesson 24 indisputably asserts. As my imaginary inner professor—that bearded wonder, ventriloquist extraordinaire–has mentioned innumerable times. Without ever moving his holy lips or seeming to […]

The last passengers aboard our flight from Denver bound to San Diego had barely taken their seats when the captain announced, with an ill-concealed sigh, that we were expecting a bumpy ride this morning out of Denver, over the Rockies, and “really everywhere in the entire Southwest today. We will try to find a smooth […]

When I was a child, my family returned to the home of my father’s older sister (who had raised him) for every long weekend and holiday, despite a six-hour drive on often treacherous North Country roads. The old clapboard house’s bones creaked and groaned in the night as I lay awake facing the door on […]