Breakthrough
A memoir excerpt recounting a quiet turning point during psychiatric hospitalization, where truth was received without recoil and healing could begin.
THEN THE BELLS TOLLED
A firsthand account of November 22, 1963—when JFK was assassinated, church bells tolled, snow kept falling, and a young man stepped unknowingly into a lifelong spiritual threshold.
The Wrong Career
Even back in 1963, sitting in that lecture hall, I had felt a similar confusion—and quietly recognized that I had entered the wrong room. I just didn’t yet know why.
Danger Zone
College in the early 1960s was a collision of ideals and crude impulses, especially for a young man like me who carried a tender conscience into an era of loosening morals.
Plato’s Cave Shadows
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall represent illusions and the false reality that people perceive as truth.
Fraternity Hell Week
Hell Week teaches that important social lesson, unless the ritual turns cruel and deadly.
The Beast Within
My father’s hand had steered me toward truth, but no strap could ward off what awaited me in adolescence. Now the enemy was not dishonesty—it was my body itself, turning strange, unpredictable, and frightening.
The Lagoon,Leeches, and the Law
Two brothers defy a No Swimming sign, plunging into a hidden lagoon—and into a lesson about fear, folly, and the leeches that never let go.
Finding True Freedom
We are left to fight our battles alone, in the quiet corners of ordinary lives, yearning for a freedom we cannot quite locate or achieve.
The Masquerade of Life
All the world’s a masquerade, where one man in his time plays many parts, and I had learned how to slip past its stopgates unnoticed.
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 