Greetings, subscribers. As you probably know, recently Florida’s Gulf Coast and beyond suffered major damage from Hurricane Idalia. We live near Orlando, and only had some rain; however, in severely affected areas, included in that hurricane damage were many trees. How can trees recover? Often, that job is up to … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. Here’s a flashback to 1986 when I returned to college in Ohio after having dropped out of East Carolina University in N.C. in 1970 to join a cult. Things have changed since then, but my experience speaks to recent unimaginable challenges to education. Back in 1986, my cult … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers! Happy Labor Day weekend. To celebrate the labor of writing, for the month of September, ON SALE for $15.00, you can get my most recent book, From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life. For YouTube book launch video and ordering details, see below. … [Read more…]
Hi folks. With permission from Dr. Lalich, PhD, Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State Univerity, Chico, author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults and other books about cults —and supporter of my memoir, Undertow—I am extremely pleased to post the following event announcent. I hope to see … [Read more…]
Greetings folks! The other day I woke up thinking about this post from 2016 (before Undertow was published), so I thought I’d post it again, mainly for more recent subscribers to this blog who missed it. It’s about one of my favorite trips. Enjoy! The President of California You didn’t … [Read more…]