This website allows me to share much of what matters most to me in life with a larger group of people than would otherwise be possible. With people, too, who come without prejudice or limitations in my regard. Many of those who seem to know you best often know you least. Once you are neatly boxed in and assigned convenient labels, they can find it impossible to recognize you in the different lighting that appears when you change or grow in ways that do not conform to their boxes and labels.
The site is a formal repository for my completed writings to date.
The Writings section provides synopses and information on eight of my works, including how to obtain.
- Fire in the Dark took twenty-five years to complete and is surely the best effort to date of demoniacal forces at large to drive me mad. Available in several formats.
- The Mouth Is for Talking. . .well. . .remembering Mary is just maybe the greatest sweetness in my life thus far. My heart she took by surprise, and there a part of her remains. Available in several formats.
- Reflections on Life is a collection of roughly 50 meditations on various of life’s moments and situations. The origins of these reflections have their roots in my own life. Each one forms part of a discernment process of inner discoveries that began consciously and formally in 1973 and has continued to the present day. It is my belief that many of the subjects and how they have been dealt with are sufficiently universal to speak to your life as well. Available gratis as an Apple Book or as a PDF.
- God And Barriers to Belief is primarily a challenge to several common barriers that many people posit as justification for why they do not or can not believe in God. This work more regards truth than an argument in favor of belief in the existence of God. Available gratis as an Apple Book or as a PDF.
- Fourteen Essays on Various Aspects of the Human Experience in the Twenty-First Century explores a variety of topics some of which are the origin and nature of self-worth; dealing with life’s barriers; our internal struggles with good and evil; overcoming our separation from others; antidote to the death wish; and starter thoughts on non-sexual intimacy. Available gratis as an Apple Book or as a PDF.
- A Case of Mistaken Identity: Why You Can’t Believe in a God Who Allows Bad Things to Happen to Good People explores and offers convincing proof that it is not God who allows bad things to happen but rather we humans ourselves. And far worse than simply allowing it, we ourselves are actually the cause it. Available gratis as an Apple Book or as a PDF.
- Taxonomy of Behavioral Objectives & Social Readiness Program (co-authored). The Taxonomy was a monumental undertaking that resulted in a training instrument (as opposed to assessment) that offers 1,100 behavioral objectives broken down into more than 26,000 component tasks for planning, writing, and implementing individualized training programs regarding basic skills of daily living for people with disabilities and others, regardless of age or classifying label. The Social Readiness Program is a behavior management system intended for use in conjunction with the Taxonomy or whatever other skills training a person is receiving. This 600-page work, 4 years in the making, is available for free, in the form of downloadable PDFs, and with virtually unrestricted use permissions.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and other than having lived in Italy for two years in my twenties and taught in Texas for two, I have always been satisfied to remain rooted right where I am. Despite the excitement and importance of traveling to places far away and experiencing all manner of new things to learn and do, the journey I most prefer and to which I keep coming back is the one within myself. The endless places of mind and soul that there I find have long upstaged all other contenders for my attention and remained center stage to my sense of the essential meaning of who I am.
Truth, Beauty, and Today are my greatest encouragements and favorite places to linger. As ideas, they turn me on something crazy. I wish getting to know them better did not require near-equal time trying to escape the barrage of human enticements that would lead me away from them. And though I could never possess these three wonders of inspiration or even be sure I am coming closer to them, yet there they are—Truth, Beauty, Today—omnipresent, indispensable, eternal, irresistible. And if all I ever achieve is knowing I have given my best to the journey to be closer to them, who says I’m not lucky?