Undertow, my memoir, is coming soon! Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International.™ Special Offer: If you subscribe to my blog, you’ll get the announcement about when you can buy a signed copy of Undertow and get it BEFORE Christmas. There will be a PayPal button on my website in … [Read more…]
In 1991 at Rollins College—twenty-five years ago—I took a course from Dr. Lezlie Laws on writing about literature. We kept journals. We wrote assignments in those journals. We recorded private thoughts in them, too. At the time, I did not realize I was gardening. I was planting seeds for future works: for an essay titled, … [Read more…]
Until now, I have hesitated to give any of my blog post space to writing about the hideous death cult known as ISIS. Why now discuss it? Several things. First: Around this time of year in 1973 I lived in Pasadena, California, not far from San Bernardino where terror and murder … [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…]
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…]