Faith Fusion

Could you imagine a life where you had to pick weeds and wild grasses to add to your soups to create the illusion of vegetables?

Healing Is A Choice – Book Review Everyone gets sick from time to time and there are many causes from viruses and bacteria to stress and environmental toxins. Many of these things are out of our control, so to say that healing is a choice brings up a lot of questions in my mind. Some people […]

Book Review: Wings Over Cairo By Simon W. Herbert A week ago today I was flying forward in time from Arizona to New Hampshire while flying back in time by reading “Wings Over Cairo”, a historical fiction novel set during WWII. It was a Christmas gift from the Author, Simon W. Herbert, who I had […]

The Light After Death Review of “Secrets of the Light” by Dannion Brinkley and Kathryn Brinkley I picked up this book when I was perusing a Borders (may it rest in peace) just before it went out of business and everything in the store was on sale. It caught my attention as I wandered through […]

Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn I remember my mother standing over my 13-year-old self, holding this book out to me, and telling me it was a beautiful true story about a little girl named Anna, who died at the age of 7. Fynn, the author, tells you this fact on page 1, so […]

The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari Review by Bethany Abelseth for UC magazine ucmag.org This book was given to me by a classmate in college who was cleaning out old stuff, getting ready to graduate and move to a different state. She handed me The Book of Joby and American Gods and said, “I think you […]

And danged if it weren’t real good. It was our 31st wedding anniversary. Me and Honey Nim polished off three decades in a time that seems as brief as a meteor fly-by. Her Japanese palate likes anything from the ocean, so we chose a nice fish restaurant in which to celebrate. The day before, I had finished […]

(continued from part 1 on May 1st) Lack of self-knowledge is due in part to our social conditioning that disconnects us from ourselves and is characterized by such notions as, “real men don’t cry,” or “sometimes I am flooded with emotions that disorganize or confuse me.” (1) Rather than deny our emotions we need to […]

Although the concept of leading a balanced life is familiar to us all we still tend to compartmentalize ourselves into neat categories that we confidently believe we can control, or at least try to! We have our family, our school or career, our social life, our church life or spirituality and then at times of […]

Facing Bipolar: The Young Adult’s Guide to dealing with bipolar disorder.  Dr.  Russ Federman and Dr. Anderson Thompson. New Harbinger Publications Inc. We are all variously challenged but for those facing mental health challenges life can seem hopeless or overwhelming. One thing I learned through working in the field of disability for 13 years was […]