Turning a Page

books I've read, books I've written

books

  • what do your dreams tell you?

    Dreams were the jumping off point on my spiritual journey.  I had had a few dreams and other spiritual experiences up to the time when I started having a lot of dreams that were clearly trying to tell me something. That is when I began taking them seriously and started writing them down on pieces… Read more

  • SPACEY

    IN 1979  Margaret Thatcher became the U.K.’s first woman Prime Minister. The Iran hostage crisis happened when American diplomats were taken into captivity. Not a good 444 days for President Jimmy Carter.  In pop culture: hand held electronic games were popular.  SONY created a Walkman that played cassette tapes or played radio and hear radio… Read more

  • INSPIRATION

    I am starting a new series based on my short story “Sweet Dreams’ that was published in 2014. It was based  both on a close high school friend and my spiritual journey. It was suggested by the publisher that I write it as fiction. I did this and shortened the story.  This series will have… Read more

  • FINDING GOD IN A BATHROOM

    I recall being in my master bathroom one night, bent over crying, asking God to please help me. It may seem an odd place to ask the angels, God or Jesus, for help. Why not go to a church or take a walk in nature to find God? This happened before, but not in private.… Read more

  • Book club

    I joined a book club earlier this year. Non-fiction topics between four hundred and five hundred pages. Book choices with page lengths were not mandatory. It just happened that the books that were suggested and agreed by all members were at least four hundred pages in length. We needed to have read the book and… Read more

  • the Seeker

     I am a seeker of spiritual truth. A reluctant seeker of spiritual truth.  My journey began at the beginning as so many do. It started with a paperback book by a well known actress whose movies I was familiar with. The first spiritually based book that was loaned to me in the 1990’s (that I… Read more

  • Lost in the Translation?

    I read Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights for the first time about ten years ago.  I recall the Yorkshire moors landscape I envisioned as I was reading the book and the friendship between Catherine and Heathcliff…well, there was love and revenge and obsession. And sadness.  Fast forward to 2026: Wuthering Heights, the movie. If… Read more