Time for Gratitude
Sean MurphyCheck this out: That's one of my oldest --and best-- friends (and one of my favorite people on the planet), Chris taking a picture with his daughter. This is the type…
Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone: Now Available
Buy the book HERE. More info about the memoir, my mission and upcoming events, HERE. Video discussing the project, below. Get a copy, share with a friend, come along for…
Sanctuary*
I visited my mother’s grave the first several years for the same reason I used to attend church: it was expected, it was meant to make me feel better, it…
For My Mother on Her 70th Birthday
I’m scared, I said. “It’s okay,” she said. “You know I’ll never leave you, right? I would never leave this place without you.” How many times did she tell me…
Art and Life (One Year Later)
(2003) Every so often I can’t help hoping that there will be a knock on my door and when I open it, who is there but my sexy soul mate,…
Every Time I Scribble A Thought With Artistic Intent
I’m fortunate, in a sense, to be the type of person that gets more sentimental about the times I read a certain book or heard a particular album than I…
A Day To Remember; A Life To Celebrate
August 30, 2002* Everything that is good about me is because of my mother. Fortunately, I was able to convey this simple truth many times in my adult life, but…
Two Years To Write, One Year To Revise…
Exactly one year ago, I wrote the following words: It takes a village to raise a family; it takes a forest to write a book. They are true, both of…
Solitude*
Anyone who has lost a parent (or worse, a child) can understand that when this happens it becomes an indelible line of demarcation: your life before and your life after.…
Q & A* (Revisited)
Question: What would you do differently? Answer: Nothing. True answer: Everything. Truest answer: I don’t know. *** If the death of a loved one provides the ultimate answer it also…