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Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Is There A God Or Isn’t There? I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.—Albert Einstein Hasn’t everyone wondered, at [...]

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win? Outside the cabin, Suzanne and her new friend Silke Featherpuff sat on a tree stump watching Trin peek over the western horizon. Trin, along with the first sun Etar, wouldn’t rise much further during the day. That meant that [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Three Habit Stories Story One: For over 6 years, I had eaten peanuts in the shell for breakfast. This may be a crazy breakfast, but I loved it all the same. However, every time I cracked a peanut, little peanut pieces flew around which [...]

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win? As the tyrannical, man-made religion of Aaron-Lem spreads across the world like wildfire, banished shapeshifter Meg Portia struggles to come to terms with the weakening of her own powers. Her shapeshifting powers were what made her unique and special. [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. “Use this book as a handy life guide. I think of a guide as something, or someone, that keeps us aiming in the direction we want to be going. A guide has traveled ahead of us and has seen the dangers and the glories [...]

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: “I saw that woman again today,” Wren said. She didn’t need to tell Roar and Ruth who she meant. They had been taking turns watching her. The newcomer had arrived in Woald a week before. No one knew where she had come from, but they suspected that it was not [...]

Listen To Banished – Chapter 4 and 5 A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: “The man known as the Preacher walked down to the Arrow to watch Etar rise from the east and turn the land and the seas that surrounded the Islands a light blue. It was his favorite time of day. It always had [...]

A Perception Parable Once upon a time there was a very handsome and proud bullfrog that lived on a lily pad in the middle of a large silver lake. He was known throughout all the land as the frog with the prettiest skin and the most beautiful eyes and he was very proud of both. [...]

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: At the first sign of dawn, the problem Meg experienced at night slipped away, and she felt safe enough to leave the building in search of food and information. The Market was Meg’s first stop each morning. As soon as the faintest beam of light streaked through the sky from [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part three. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. How did it all begin? Where is it going? Learn more about the bored brothers on the snake-shaped spaceship, Hannah in the Earth Realm, Suzanne from Erda, and Meg’s adventures in Thamon. Author Note: Although The Experiment stands alone as a short story, it [...]

For years, while sitting in a tiny church in Venice, CA, I stared at this quote on the wall. “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.“— Mary Baker Eddy. I did not truly understand what that meant. But more than anything I wanted to. It was a promise, and I [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. How did it all begin? Where is it going? Learn more about the bored brothers on the snake-shaped spaceship, Hannah in the Earth Realm, Suzanne from Erda, and Meg’s adventures in Thamon. Author Note: Although The Experiment stands alone as a short story, it [...]

Lurking in the shadows of our lives is a fear—and a resistance—to showing up. And yet, since we are here on earth, we agreed to show up.
Not just as a person that takes up space, or lives life as something to endure, but showing up to the something that you, and only you, are here to do.

Thinking is overrated. If you know me well, you might be laughing. I think all the time. I’m curious. I’m a planner. I think about how things will happen, what needs to be said, how to put my classes together. I think about how the universe works. But I don’t want to be stuck in [...]

Are you stuck in a story? Well, who isn’t? Sometimes we don’t care. If the story works well enough, let it be. But what happens when the story isn’t working for us anymore? Then we have a choice. Rewrite the story completely, or do just enough to be more comfortable. Sometimes we want to rewrite [...]

Starting in my early teens, and lasting for the next 25 years or so, I collected words and saved them. I read the newspaper and clipped articles that moved me, ideas that opened my eyes, essays that inspired me, and pasted them all into a big journal type book. I read books, watched movies, went [...]

Sitting on the stationary bike at the gym, reading Kurt Vonnegut on my iPhone, I was suddenly, and instantly, transported through a time warp back to somewhere in the sixties. I was in our living room, in the house on Irvin Ave., and Dad was walking with his trademark forward lean down the hallway, correcting [...]

All winter the blue storage box sat alone on the floor of the garage, calling me. Years before, my husband and I, on our way to more traveling, had left it with my daughter for safekeeping. She returned it in the fall, but I didn’t open it, knowing it would require something from me that [...]