Doesn't everyone deserve love? To be loved? To be accepted? To be cared for? Over the last couple of years, I've watched friends go through devastating breakups, and I've noticed a recurring sentiment that I'd like to warn you about. I know many empathetic, big-hearted, patient people with lots of love to give. Some of them have been in relationships with terrible…
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are the central characters of a Christian Bible story. They walk into a fiery furnace and then emerge unharmed. These characters took central stage in a church sermon I heard once about cult-behavior and the three tactics used to turn someone away from god. Change their names. Cut them off from their family. Force them to denounce their…
This is the story of how the 70s sneaked up on me in a dark alley once. I was born in 1977, but it was well into the 80s before I had a sense of the passage of time and the concept of decades. For me, “the 70s” was always a thing of the past. In fact, I thought of it as…