Monthly Archive: May 2016

Vision

“I see life through the lens of the particular image that lives in me.” (Ronald Holtz) That is another quote from my friend Ron’s new book-to-be. It seems a little bit obvious because if we have any self-awareness at all, of course that is true.  Basically we can all be myopic as hell. But how can we not, when each one of us has an inborn uniqueness, a family of origin disposition, a birth-order distinction, a world of environmental conditions and specific emotional and physical experiences that form our personal identities? As someone who has been sharing online the way...

Wanting

“Sex, drugs and rock and roll.” I believe I first heard that expression when I was in middle school. That was about the time I was introduced to the tragic story of a young girl in the novel Go Ask Alice.  It details her fall into drug abuse and the resulting sexual abuse she suffered.  She makes it home and gets a new chance at life in the novel but, devastatingly, the (purported) actual girl the novel was based on did not live to see the book published.  I sometimes think that book steered me clear of the temptation to use...