What was I thinking? Write a book? With publication for Undertow fast approaching (before Christmas; I’ll let you know when you can pre-order your copy) I thought I’d start a series about what it’s been like to write it. Welcome to Part 1 of “Writing Undertow.” Bits of analogies. Let … [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…]
Hello, my friends, acquaintances, and interested parties. Today is a triple-header. 1. This website’s first anniversary 2. My birthday (shhh) 3. The jump-off-another-cliff creation: New Wings Press! Anniversary celebration kudos go to my website designer, Mary Ann de Stefano, owner of Mad About Words. Her creativity helped make this site a reality and a continuing home for … [Read more…]
Hello. We interrupt our regularly scheduled program series,The Wilderness Beyond, for something completely different. Two kinds of rain fell here lately, and this is my overflow report. It has to do with writing and with something called the Tao. You may of heard of these things. Here’s my bit today. Winter With The … [Read more…]
Happy New Year – 2016 – to all you blog subscribers and also to any visitors to my website! This post is dedicated to you. Without readers … well, I’d keep blogging, but it might not be as much fun. Thank you for your comments, insights, and remarks of all kinds last year. … [Read more…]