How is a hospital emergency room a metaphor for anything positive? Emergency rooms The rush to an emergency room: swift action, diagnosis, remedy, cures. Fragility is in the air like a china cup breakable if held too tight. Walk quietly, speak gently. An emotional emergency room—invisible until someone winces, cringes, shouts in … [Read more…]
Turkey. Cook it. Eat it. Or visit it … the history-soaked land in the Near East, the crossroads of Europe and Asia, includes lands even farther east reached via the Silk Road. Our Turkey trip My husband and I traveled around Turkey in 2001 for one month. When we got home, I created the most complex … [Read more…]
What does needlepoint have to do with memoir? I can tell you. My memoir (personal story) called Undertow is a manuscript, not a published book … YET. Currently a few reviewers (author friends) are reading it. You might know it by its long name, Undertow: Seventeen Years in a Fundamentalist Cult. The other … [Read more…]
It just happened that yesterday A Trail of Sorrow was published here at this website and sent to subscribers. It addressed stories and features of destructive cults, like valuing an ideology over human life. Last evening’s horrific events in Paris are beyond belief. This post is dedicated to the people of France, to the victims, their families … [Read more…]
What do destructive cults actually do to members? Depends on which group. And it could vary from one “level” in the group to another. For instance, a person who only attends a fellowship once in a while and does not invest much in the group, well … that person might … [Read more…]