Forgiving God?

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.  Ivern Ball Revelation time.  I just had that aha moment while reading chapter six of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.  He talks about fighting against the parasite of the mind, that we need to [...] Read more »

Making Dreams Come True

Your beliefs are never neutral. They either move you forward or hold you back. And you choose what you will believe.   ~Marcia Wieder from Making Your Dreams Come True Okay, it’s time.  I had two friends talk to me on consecutive days last week about my memoir.  I’ve set it aside for about six months.  [...] Read more »

You Can Heal Your Life

Save your strength for things that you can change / Forgive the ones you can’t / You gotta let it go.   Zac Brown Band I spend a lot of time reading.  It used to be that I read only fiction.  My degree is in literature and I spent 26 years teaching high school English.  Fiction [...] Read more »

Making Dreams Come True

Dreams         by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.    Sometimes I just hate being honest. I really don’t want to talk about this.  It puts me in [...] Read more »

Moab Folk Festival

  I must’ve been Gandhi or Buddha or someone like that, I must’ve saved lives by the hundreds everywhere I went. I must’ve brought rest to the restless, fed the hungry too, I must’ve done something great to get to have you.             Gandhi/Buddha  lyrics by Cheryl Wheeler   This [...] Read more »

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