Longing for Spirit |blog

I've written about moments of spiritual insight in my life, moments when time is stopped, moments when I have felt transported to a different level of awareness, all pain and depression gone. These moments have come mostly by surprise, without conscious seeking.

The Abstinence Teacher and One Reason I am a Unitarian

I have dived back into fiction after a long hiatus. I just couldn't wrap my head around other peoples drama when I was living out my own. My first foray back was "The Abstinence Teacher". I had actually checked this book out twice and only now did I actually crack it's spine.

Repeal The Uniform Services Former Spouses Protection Act (usfspa)

The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act, 10 U.S.C. sect 1408, et seq. included as a "rider" to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Bill, often called the USFSPA, effectively invalidates the United States Supreme Court's ruling McCARTY v. McCARTY, 453 U.S.

How we read online

Nielsen's apt description of the online reader: "[U]sers are selfish, lazy, and ruthless." You, my dear user, pluck the low-hanging fruit. When you arrive on a page, you don't actually deign to read it. You scan. If you don't see what you need, you're gone.

Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future

A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, which focused on the stressful nature of blogging.

Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging

Opinion piece on blogging