God is Real Excerpt from my upcoming book – The Exactitude of Miracles I’m not saying God always chips into our conversations. But I know He always listens and that is more than can be said of nearly every person on this rock spinning around its ho-hum star in the
Author: Climbing a Burning Rope
King Riot Excerpt from My Memoir “Darkness dwells in all of us, waiting for justification to be released. Have you ever seen yourself in the face of somebody you didn’t want to be? I did. In 1992 I saw it in the faces of the looters on TV the
Jackpot I am in the process of producing and narrating my memoir in Audible and iTunes Audio Book formats. Here is a sample chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Please sign up for my Burning Rope Newsletter on the right side of this page to stay apprised of my progress
Transparency Without Shame “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain I was a liar. To be an alcoholic and an addict you have to be. You must be able to lie to yourself to keep destroying your life against every natural
Independence Day What it Means to Me Having been raised in a cult where dependence on the corporeal mass is tantamount to survival independence has a special meaning to me. On The 4th of July I celebrate the independence of America and all the good things it stands for even
The Real World Excerpt from Climbing a Burning Rope “In less than a year after leaving drug free Synanon I became hooked on smokes, pot, and booze. I didn’t know how to cope with the radical change of reentering outsider society. I self-medicated to handle the stress. I took to
Integrity In Writing and Life A main reason it took about nine years to write my memoir is that I was an alcoholic and was drinking too much. I would get drunk and try to write because it was one of the only ways I could cope with the hurt
Alarm Clocks and Butcher Knives I am in the process of producing and narrating my memoir in Audible and iTunes Audio Book formats. Here is a sample chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Please sign up for my Burning Rope Newsletter on the right side of this page to stay
Mining the Good I spent a lot of time dwelling on all the bad things that happened to me. It took a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the negative things. So much in fact, that I lost track of the good things that happened and forgot about them.
Website launch Hello and thank you so much for visiting my new website for my memoir entitled Climbing a Burning Rope. Here you can purchase my book, contact me, sign-up for a newsletter, read my blog and learn a bit more about me. It is my intention with this Blog