The Twelve By William Gladstone
In this excellent novel, the reader is taken on an exciting journey through the life of a fictional character named Max Doff, from his birth through December 21, 2012. At age 15 Max has a near death experience in which he sees twelve names. Although he is unable to remember them [...]

What pops into your mind when you think of Thanksgiving? If you’re like me, you really can’t get that turkey out of your head. My son told me that on the east coast, they just call it “turkey day”. What happened to the “thanks” in Thanksgiving?
It’s easy to blame the media for the secularization of [...]

How we respond to our circumstances makes all of the difference in our lives. Whether we choose to be like the ostrich— burying our head in the sand—or to face things head on, will determine our future. Ignoring our challenges will rarely improve our lives. However, when we courageously meet our difficulties and seek creative [...]

Caroline Myss, Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul, Free Press, New York, NY, 2007.
For those craving to move beyond a ‘hybrid spirituality of intuition and mind-body practices’, for those wishing to be ‘mystics without monasteries’, Entering the Castle provides the grounded framework for your path. In this contemporary writing on [...]

Randall Fitzgerald, The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health, Dutton (Penguin Group), New York, NY, 2006. $24.95
Myth: vaccinations are always helpful. Myth: food does not cause violence. In The Hundred-Year Lie, Randall Fitzgerald lays bare the facts in this investigative report on the cataclysmic intersection of the processed food, pharmaceutical and [...]

Students around the world refer to him respectfully as Sifu, which means “teacher”…

Here we are, living out the final months of the first decade…