Posted on 24 April 2012, 14:38

We live in time and are in constant flux.  We grow.  We diminish.  But a question arises.  Has the process been going on for a very long time?  Possibly even before our present life on earth?  I can’t remember a single event before my third year, but my parents tell me…

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Posted on 27 December 2011, 11:01

A Lesson from the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Sometimes I wonder if we are supposed to know what to expect after we die.  Maybe it’s part of the divine plan that we do not.  Are the spirits who tell us about their world through mediums flouting the plan?  Are they making it…

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Posted on 04 November 2011, 8:57

According to Steve Jobs’ sister Mona Simpson, who gave the eulogy at her brother’s memorial service on the campus of Stanford University October 16, Jobs’ final words were, “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”  From his deathbed he was looking past members of his family into the distance when he spoke these…

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Posted on 31 October 2011, 19:10

Growing up a white Anglo-Saxon Catholic, I observed All Saints Day November 1 and All Souls Day November 2.  In other words, I said a few prayers to my favorite saint and said a few more for the anonymous dead a day later.  I had no idea what kind of fun I was missing because I wasn’t born…

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Posted on 19 October 2011, 20:14

Last month the 14th annual Bakersfield Interfaith Conference addressed the question of afterlife.  Representatives of the world’s three largest faiths—Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism—shared their convictions, and a professional philosopher with materialist convictions made the case for extinction. …

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Posted on 23 September 2011, 17:13

I am delighted to announce that White Crow Books will be publishing my novel The Imprisoned Splendor in a November 2011.

It’s a…

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Posted on 02 September 2011, 12:00

Test blog post for Stafford Betty

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