Think About This

Our block is a cul-de-sac in an aging neighborhood.  We’ve lived in the center house since 1977.  Back then it was a much livelier place than it is now.  It rang with the noise of our kids and neighbor kids playing in the circle with bats, balls, skates, bikes, kites, radio-controlled cars, and hammocks hanging [...]

Sometimes I think that being fat, or sometimes not quite so fat, has been the overriding theme of my entire life.  In old family pictures I appear to be of normal weight until the age of four or five, and then I chub up dramatically by age eight.  In recent years, when society is bent on [...]

As you surely know by now, I do my best to live an intuitive, spirit-driven life.  I’ve learned to pay attention and act upon the guidance I receive from my team of spirit guides.  They’ve led me to people, places, and experiences I would have missed entirely without their relentless nudging.  Believe me, I live in [...]

At this time of year THWAM and I always embark on a movie marathon.  It’s a good time for it because the movie-makers are trying to get their best stuff into the 2009 Oscar season.  Since we’re seniors and we like to go to the first showing of the day, we get in for $5.00.  [...]

That’s right, Christmas wasn’t perfect this year and I am here to confess that I didn’t handle that with as much grace and acceptance as I would have liked.
The problem is that, in my mind, until this year every family Christmas we’ve ever had was absolutely perfect.  Most everybody came, everybody loved and appreciated one [...]

I am having three thoughts today:
1.  I have never had a deep personal relationship with a cat or a dog, so I am both envious of and a little puzzled by those who can count them as family members.
2.  Since I have become consciously intuitive, dogs have communicated with me on three separate occasions.  The spirit dog wanted [...]

It began with an unpleasant smell at the kitchen sink.  We ignored it, hoping it would go away.  It didn’t.  There came the day when every bit of kitchen flotsam (or is it jetsam?) that I had assumed was safely ground up and washed away over the last few months returned to us, a stinking gush [...]

Here is the story.
The father loves his boy very much.  He loves him so much that he wants him to have all the good things in life:  academic success, friends, good health, success in a sport, passionate interests, everything.  He just wants his boy to be happy, because he loves him so much.  So the father vows [...]

Today I am thinking about seeing things.
Having read the title, you are expecting this post to be about how pleased I am with my new glasses and how my vision has improved.  Yes, I am extremely happy with them, but that’s not at all what this is about.  This is about having a vision.  (I [...]

Bobby seems like a funny name for him, the curandero.  Perhaps it’s too commonplace for a wise man who has studied with shamans in places like Peru and Columbia, but there it is, his name, Bobby Sanchez.  He’s a gifted healer, a teacher, a holder of wise and ancient knowledge rooted in the traditions of the [...]