Upcoming Workshops 2012

I’ll be giving several workshops in the New Year. At Curry College I’ll be offering two fourteen week classes of The Therapeutic Uses of Writing - my ever popular workshops designed to uncover the unconscious stories we live by. (The course numbers are  ENG 3440 and 3550).

I’ll also be hosting a one day Memoir writing [...]

Interview with Wendy Garrett

Today I had the real delight of talking about “The Path of Synchronicity” with Wendy Garrett, host of Empower Radio: www.empoweradio.com . It’s always a pleasure to be interviewed for radio, and Wendy is certainly one of the very best people to talk with when it comes down to understanding the ways of the universe.

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The New Book: A Diet Book for the Soul

“Spiritual Hunger” will be ready for purchase in about February 2012.  It’s about that emptiness inside that we tend to fill with various activities of a compulsive nature.  Shopping, for example, might come under that heading…. Over-indulgences of all kind fit the category.

So how do we feed that spiritual emptiness, and what with? Think of [...]

Phillip Roth

I just read “Everyman”, and since Roth is one of our national icons it seemed like a good idea to find out why.

I confess to being disappointed. The short novel is centered on the medical procedures attendant on aging and death, but the world the unnamed everyman figure inhabits is purely physical. There was no [...]

A Victorian Christmas? We Need a Change.

The present form of Christmas, which includes family gatherings and trees and presents, was invented and puffed into being in England in the early Nineteenth century, Queen Victoria’s reign, by the wealthy middle classes.

Until then Easter had been the holiest time of the year; which made sense as it was possible to travel at Easter [...]

Easy Options - don’t give in to them

The alarmist nature of our media encourages, mostly, despair and gloom in us, the citizens bombarded by it. The only problem with this is that it is ultimately easy despair, mutely prodding us to give up and become cynical.

We can’t afford this kind of easy I-can-do-nothing-about-it despondency. In fact, it’s not really an option [...]

La Coste

I’ve just had a series of inquiries from a french agency that wants to put La Coste banners on my website.  They offer to pay, too. This seems odd since I don’t use la Coste, and I doubt if anyone comes to my site to look for clothing. Perhaps it’s just the enormous number of [...]