Life is shorter than we think. That’s cliché, I know, but clichés are clichés for a reason. They carry a truth. Have you ever had a new friend that you wished, after you discovered they must soon move away, that you’d spent more time with? Have you fallen into the habit of expecting your friends … [Read more…]
Finally! Beat the drums. Coming January 2017— Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International™ This memoir draws back the curtains on my seventeen years in The Way, one of the largest fundamentalist groups in the 1980s. I now consider it a destructive cult. When I’d dropped out of college in 1970 … [Read more…]
Where is Patagonia? Is it a country? A sportswear company? Patagonia IS a company that sells expensive outdoor adventure clothes but it is not a country. It is an area in the southern part of South America that stretches east to west across Chile and Argentina where the wind blusters and wildness rules. After our cruise … [Read more…]
Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is nine miles from my house. Yesterday we woke to the unspeakable, horrific news of the terrorist attack and hate crime perpetrated at Pulse. In Orlando, named “The City Beautiful,” we mourn. But we will not live in fear. Our hearts go out to … [Read more…]
I’ll bet none of you expected a post today about fundamentalists. I suspect you anticipated the continuation of The Wilderness Beyond series that I’ve promised to finish. Well, that will be the next post. Because … I’m in the next phase of self-publishing my memoir (about 17 years I spent in a fundamentalist cult, … [Read more…]