Jim Brickman at the Los Angeles Gracie Awards in 2013 Jim Brickman collaborated with Tom Douglas to write “The Gift.” Jim wrote the...

This is the prologue to the new edition of “Three Days to Darkness.” I’ve extensively rewritten the original novel (first published in...

I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...

Are you stuck in the land of sadness? Do you always come back to this all-too-familiar place, no matter what you do to get out?...

Here’s the jumpy title song from Jackson Brown’s album “I’m Alive” (1993). The song is about Brown’s breakup with his longtime...

I don’t know anything anymore I don’t know up from down Or east from west Or happiness from sadness I don’t know anything It’s becoming...

My mother-in-law, Muriel Erens, was a simple woman. She died last week at the age of ninety-three. We called her Merel. Merel was special...

A Thoroughbred Race Horse in Full Stride I remember the day my father asked me to become a partner in the stable.  He was sitting behind...

Seagulls falling out of the sky raised a line of puffs on the barren beach as they smacked  into the sand. Darren glanced...