I go back in time to 1990 when I composed forty-two charismatic, yet polished, religious poems inspired by Christian Scripture and my young life. After a heartfelt commentary from then, I've added retrospectives on each poem from my humanist perspective now as a wiser, wittier person with a physical challenge. I'm inspired not only by life but also much research into history. I believe people can be good without belief in a god simply by being the best person they can be. It's frustrating that religious people assume that the millions of nonreligious people in the world need to be preached at...

This book combines my old religious poetry with retrospectives and my new humanist section of my spiritual autobiography. I couldn't find a desert landscape I liked for the cover, but found this image of wind power coming out of perhaps a desert. It also is about traveling a modern-day path and finding your way in the world. I would like to think my book encourages such exploration as in the quote by T.S. Eliot found on the back cover. I've been heavily influenced by works written by the philosopher Morris Berman, including Wandering God: A Study of Nomadic Spirituality and The Re-enchantment...

Eden in Purrgatory: A Satire is a satirical, yet well-researched prequel to Eden at Play: A Grown-Up Fable. It initiates a thematic trilogy that explores our relationship, for good or ill, with spiritual matters. This prequel is told from the perspectives of first-century cats while the middle one from contemporary people like ourselves and the final one from futuristic people who are half robotic. This novel includes a section on the historical aspects that are not limited to many of its characters. I also pay tribute to The Arabian Nights, Homer and Greek mythology as well as the burgeoning...