For Writers Only: Make Yourself an Amazon Bestseller
Yesterday, I mailed out my newsletter offering other authors a chance to try out my method on how to
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Spent
Withered, wafer thin, and worn—palliative, it would seem. And all your glories seem forgotten in the pressing now, and you lean a little more, and you breathe a little harder, and you respond less as...
View ArticleAs if dead is better than being with me.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Connect the Dots.” I understand what she meant. She meant to come up to me and say some off handed remark that everyone always makes in these types of...
View ArticleThe river in the mountains of surrender
The river in the mountains of surrender Calls to me. Bids me come. Come home to the cleansing. Come
View ArticleControl what you can so you can deal with what comes up.
Every social work job I’ve had can be divided into a couple of categories: things over which I have some control and things over which I have none. The former consists of documentation, effectively...
View ArticleIf I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
What if the child of a mother stricken with agoraphobia is raised totally indoors, sheltered from the outside world and real life? That child would be Will, a sweet, sensitive, artistic child who is...
View ArticleYesterday
Yesterday, you were sick. We hoped you would get better. We hoped and prayed you would. As the yeste
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Learning to grieve
I have about a dozen topics in my “Real life posts” file. Some of them are just titles of posts I want to write (some of these have handwritten notes strewn throughout three notebooks I have had with...
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Running the Same River
On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by...
View ArticleIn the Quiet of the Evening
Death is part of life and when you choose to love someone, you also choose to grieve for them when t
View ArticleRedemption Poem
This piece spins off from a Ben Huberman Daily Prompt post of January 17. Thank you, Ben! The first
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The Chronology of the Bereaved Parent, living with loss for a lifetime
used with permission http://www.thegrieftoolbox.com If you want to go the extremes of grief to try to understand the complexities of the bereavement process one...
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End of life care: doctors, machines and technology can keep us alive, but why?
Before starting medical school, James Downar believed that doctors have a moral duty not to let patients die without doing everything to keep them alive. Then he started to experience how lives...
View ArticleLearning to Communicate.
I was told that my MSW program would provide me with everything I needed to be a confident practitioner from my first day out of school. While I did complete the equivalent of five practicums during my...
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Tell me Who I am
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement. He gave him the plans of all that...
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Finishing The Race With Class
I met Rhonda close to a decade ago, when she and her husband and two girls moved to Orlando. She was kind and spunky and had a smile that grew with the number of people she embraced in her life....
View ArticleI Also Grieve
A young couple, in love and in the beginnings of a long life together. Their plans and dreams painti
View ArticleIndustry News: "Edgar" Short List of Candidates & A Reading Challenge
Today’s Publishing News! Crimespree Magazine (http://crimespreemag.com/) announced the short l
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I Took My Dying Dog on a Bucket List Adventure - by Lauren Fern Watt
elizabethweaver:Gizelle & Lauren Originally posted on Kindness Blog: When my 160-pound English Mastiff was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, I was crushed. Together Gizelle and I had been...
View ArticleOn The Road Again
I have been around for a while. I have met thousands of people, neurons like me, through this wormho
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