So my old friend Anne lies on her death bed, in a semi-comatose state. She is suspended somewhere between the living and the dead. The doctors assure me that she can think clearly and hear everything said. She feels pain and especially boredom. She cannot voluntarily move even her eyes. She had a drunken car accident and a devastating head injury. One of the of the last things she told me before she sank into the twilight of her life, was that she wished she could yank out the power cord to the respirator she has been attached to for 4 months. That machine was the only thing keeping her...

With popularity of the first book, "The Good News About Being Catholic" I was destined to produce a second book. The first book was inspired by conversations I had during a two week trip to a southern university in the US. The lack of accurate information and the bigotry I encountered by the well-meaning Christians and others along the way was shocking to me. Be that as it may, I decided to write this short piece on the psychological healing aspects of the Sacrament of Confession, now called Reconciliation. In my life and my work as a professional Counselor I cannot think of a single more...

What follows is a collection of true life short stories of some of the adventures I have had over the last decade and a half as a solo kayaker. They all take place in Eld Inlet, Southern Puget Sound.

My wife and I began this voyage of self-discovery about 2 years ago. Our kids were gone and we wanted to use our living space a little differently. We wanted to clean out some the clutter we had accumulated from raising two teenage boys and generally clean out our home. Little did we know that before we were done; we would change our view of material belongings, and actually begin rejecting our cultural addiction to owning more stuff. How It All Started I was organizing our "storage room." It was a 12x10 room and almost completely filled to the ceiling with belongings. Half of the stuff was...