2010 Several years ago I was asked to give a lesson on changing behavior. The text we were using mentioned the Seven Deadly Sins. Curiosity sent me to the dictionary and in an old Funk and Wagnall’s I found the following definition. “Sin—any character defect that impedes spiritual growth.” The absence of guilt, admonishment or [...]
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Agents, Editors and Publishers
I’m almost afraid to mention it, but an agent—a real one in New York City—has the manuscript of one of my books. I’m not expecting anything from this. I have twenty-five years of rejection letters. Some of the ones for poetry have actual pen and ink words on them written by a real person. I [...]
Facing Facebook
Dear readers and followers, I’ve been doing it all wrong and I apologize. I don’t consider myself a newcomer to technology regardless of what the calendar says about my age. In the office we had an old TRS (Trash) 80 back in the ‘70s. In the 80s when I really began to write seriously, I [...]
Grace and Reincarnation
If you received my New Year’s card you have seen the picture of my cat, Grace, sitting on the couch with her paws demurely crossed, looking like the Duchess she is. My children say she is my mother, reincarnated. I don’t know about that, but she certainly has presence and the same green eyes. Last [...]
The Real Meaning of Support Group
Every time I hear the phrase “support group” I have an image of a plain, flesh colored brassier, C cup, no lace: useful, voluntary and sometimes necessary. The past three months the real meaning of support group has been an ongoing presence in my life. It has to do with the much too early death [...]
A Little Now and Then Zen
It all started yesterday when a group of us were discussing the end of the Mayan Calendar (sometime in December 2012.) We had one true believer and a number of skeptics, but the conversation morphed into a discussion of what is the nature of planning and how does that affect what you are doing at [...]
