The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold…

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came...

We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary–made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn’t whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it’s whether or not you...

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with...

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the...

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field...

I have often plotted my great escape to the beach. To live seaside and to be able to stare possibility and tranquility in the face every day … I wanted it bad enough to taste....

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

Escape to Read and Read to Escape!

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It’s never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level ‘symptomatics’. How we deal with the energy it brings, however,...

He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing...