Insights

A Ghoul Story

In the spring of 1980, when I was 30 and my son was six years old, we moved into a rental house in one of the older, but nicer sections of Houston, Texas. I was a young executive in charge of marketing for the southwest region of Lincoln Property Company

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A Return to Stillness

A Return to Stillness The New Year arrived to find friends, family, clients and especially me facing a reassessment in the essential nature of self. The poles are shifting; the climate is changing and this dimension called Earth is bringing new opportunity to explore uncharted territory. Those who know me

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I Believe in Magic

Dianna Bishop (a witch):  Common sense told me to remain silent, but the knotted threads of my own secrets began to loosen.  “I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world with so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves

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2012, Here We Come!!

I grew up in the south of Texas in a family that was a regularly attending member of the Southern Baptist Church. I don’t mean an occasional Sunday, but every Sunday, as well as Sunday night, and sometimes even Wednesday night for Bible Study. In the eighth grade, I had

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The Tsunami of Thought

I am by no means a disciple of doom and gloom, end of days, Hopi predictions, or even Chicken Little. If anything, it is safe to say I tend to be a little too optimistic. The last several months, however, have given me reason for pause, as I look at

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Alaska; The Deeper Journey

This is a momentous year in my life. On June 12th, I turned 60, thus catapulting me deeper into AARPdom than I ever thought possible. Don’t get me wrong, I am not upset or undone about getting older. I am not viciously hanging on to my 30’s, 40’s or even

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