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…]
This year is for the birds! Welcome back to the Wilderness Beyond series. On the first morning of 2016, we spent some quality time with a bunch of waddling feathered Magellanic Penguins doing what penguins do on Magdalena Island in the Straits of Magellan, Chile. The island and the bird are named for the … [Read more…]