A woman on my Facebook page announced her intention to live a more spiritual life in the coming year. The objective was noble, and I wondered how she intended to go about it. For me, spirituality is the daily practice of random acts of kindness. To illustrate, I offer an experienc
I received an email last week from a woman who’d read my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home. I LOVED your book and am recommending it to my book club and my other book-reading friends. Thank you for writing your memoirs in the wonderful book Getting Lost to Find Home. It is truly
The mother sitting across from me at the lunch table sighed when I asked about her daughter. “She’s thinking about moving to Pennsylvania. Since she works from home, she can live anywhere. Rural Pennsylvania seems to be the one place where houses are affordable. “ The dile
The podcaster interviewing me about my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home sounded incensed. Why had I clung to my engagement plans for two years before admitting I was being jilted? “Couldn’t you see it coming?” the man asked. His question wasn’t friendly, but it didn’t sto
At the retirement center, a woman approached me to compliment a blog I had written. My reply was to shrug and say the words hadn’t amounted to much. Later, I recanted, realizing my false humility had made light of her opinion. To be honest, I’d worked hard on that blog. Wh
If life feels frustrating, there’s a reason. Frustration is a condition throughout the universe. Even electrons are vulnerable. Because an imbalance exists between the places for them in one layer of the quantum soup and another, each time the layers interact, the quantum particle
On an upcoming edition of my book talk show, Just Readi It, author Karl Marlantes reveals the struggle he faced to publish the first of his two best-selling novels, Matterhorn. A young man newly returned from the Vietnam War, he was determined to recapture his experience as a soldie