A few years ago I took an incredible trip with my sister Evelyn. We attended the C. S. Lewis Lecture’s at Oxford University and did some magnificent sightseeing under the guidance of my good nephew Tim. In London, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral and then walked across the bridge over the Thames River to the [...]

I have always seen my self doubt as the enemy of my writing; something to be defeated. Thanks to a conversation with my daughter Jill, I now see My sense of self doubt as inevitable. When I write, self doubt is there and it always will be there.  However, it not just there as something [...]

The following ideas have helped me.
-From where she is at this moment up in heaven, my Mom is an unimaginably good Mother. That is one reason I should live in this moment and not the past. Also, my future in terms of my mother’s love and respect for me is unimaginably good.
-I believe in the essential [...]

Jill’s Mom, Jerelyn, who is my ex-wife, was a few months pregnant with Jill when we were deciding to move from the East Coast back to California. At the time, we already had one daughter, our adorable two year old Gina The decision to move was a tough one for me to make. I was [...]

Here are seven reasons I used to not respond to what seems to me to be female flirting.  I am getting very hard on my hesitations and have actually made good progress. The reasons listed are in no particular order.
1. I need to be pretty sure I am reading the signals right. It hurts to [...]

Years ago, I read a rather graphic account of the sacrifice of babies in the ancient Near East. I wish I had not read it. I find it disturbing at this moment even though I read it decades ago.
The sacrifice of babies like the little guy you see pictured above, is shocking to me. It [...]

The following ideas have helped me. These ideas have been developing over the years but came together at a wonderful meeting in which “Boundaries” was the topic.
-Boundaries can be developed as I become acquainted with and willing to communicate the secret thoughts that in the past I was too frightened to mention.
-The first thing I [...]

From the age of seven  until the age of fifteen, I lived in Coronado, Ca. which means we lived there from1945-1953. Coronado is called an island but it is actually connected to the San Diego area  by a narrow strip of sand called The Silver Strand. Coronado, which is across the bay from San Diego’s [...]

The following ideas have helped me.
-I have learned that my Higher Power does not want to change me as much as She wants to help me actualize the wonderful person I already am, beneath all the fears and shame.
-Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life” means whatever choice I [...]

Comments on “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.”
-I do not have an acceptance switch I can flip when I am struggling. For me, meetings, my sponsor, and phone calls are the tools that most often restore my serenity
-Serenity is never thought up or worked up. It is always granted [...]