For as long as I can remember, I have always loved music. As a child, my brothers joked that their only indication that I did not have Attention Deficit Disorder was when I’d lay in front of the stereo listening to Beatles albums for hours at a time. A song sometimes instantly connects me to a specific feeling or moment in life. Other times a song simply grabs...

This past year, I lost what I thought was the love of my life. I’m coming up on the anniversary of that ending. And at 56, with no job, no kids, no significant other, I’ve spent mostly what has felt like wasted time ruminating on what I’ve lost in life. However, the cumulation of disappointment, fear, lack of control and clinging to people and...

It has been a while since my last entry, but that does not mean I have been without thought on the subject of God, creation and our purpose. In my past musings,  I turned to the Bible and Christianity for clues to our mystical purpose and our relationship with God, primarily through my cultural biases and upbringings but also challenged popular beliefs about prayer...

March 8th, 2011 – A lot has been on my mind lately, so I decided to try to put it to words after seeing a post from a friend who was asking for prayer advise. Ultimately, I did not send this to my new friend, even though I wrote my response as if writing to someone else. The intent of the letter is to unwrap my own thoughts regarding prayer and not advice to...

November 23rd, 2009 I loaded up my cats this past Saturday to take them to the Delta Cargo Warehouse where they would be shipped to Seattle, giving Kerry a day to acclimate them before my arrival on Sunday, my new home. I was supposed to get my cats there by 1pm for a 3pm departure. For the full 45 minutes in transit, I listened to the steady curdling cries of two...