People are aghast when they discover I left my comfortable job at age 55 to enter the state of retirement as our culture popularly defines it.  This for most...

A lot of people know about my background, but very few know my story.” That quote from one of my newbie writer friends was casually stated, yet it struck me ...

Tapping into my spiritual self to share with you because that is what I am feeling this evening.  With Thanksgiving in the past, I am cherishing the memory o...

Woohoo, Thanksgiving is here!  Thanksgiving is every day for me, but I love it when the rest of the U.S. plays along.  Most get excited about the travels hom...

My last day of work was this past Thursday.  I came home and raised a glass to celebrate a career that has spanned three and a half decades.  I sat on my cou...

In the past three weeks my children have broken up with their significant others. Their friends are doing this too, and the grapevine is strangling with stor...

Much has been said about our fight/flight response, hunter/gatherer days in primitive times. Yet I imagine there must’ve been hours back then between sabre t...

From the Sanctuary: I take a different vantage point in the Sanctuary today as part of my new “Reverse that MS” therapy. The neurologist has ordered some IV ...

From the Sanctuary: The Universe has been kind this week, delivering a perfect fit job offer, which I enthusiastically accepted. Since receiving my nonrenewa...

From the Sanctuary: The wind is blowing heavily on this eighty-degree Labor Day—the Universe is working overtime as I like to observe, shifting the world to ...

From the Sanctuary: Sitting in the lanai at sunset, pen in hand, enjoying the stillness and quiet of the evening with the relaxing colors of the horizon as a...

From the Sanctuary: The first cicadas of summer are making their buzzing debut—invoking a sense of relaxation whenever I hear it. Pretty soon the sharp snapp...

From the Sanctuary: Nature rampage lately…so healing to the psyche! First to Southwest Florida to explore with friends. My first day there they introduced me...

From the Sanctuary: There is value in getting to know ourselves deeply and sharing that with others. Not just what we do, but who we truly are based on the j...

Solo road trip along the lake, Cleveland bound. This journey begins with my being on the receiving end of a random act of kindness when I reached the toll ta...

From the Sanctuary: It’s been awhile since I’ve written that and it feels good. I have been away from the pen, notebook and keyboard, a psychotic break devia...