A Healing Odyssey

Saturday, December 31, 2016 It's time to bid farewell to this year, 2016.  This was an eventful year. It was filled with many disa...

Friday, December 30, 2016 It has been over three months since I last wrote in this blog. My life has improved significantly. I am now do...

Thursday, September 8, 2016 My life has changed immensely since I last wrote an entry in my blog. I feel myself quite full of a whole ...

Monday, August 15, 2016 I began my day quite early today. One of the first things I did was go to the Basilica of St. Mary in order to t...

Sunday, August 14, 2016 As the remaining days of August pass I find myself eager to have clarity regarding where I will be moving on to ...

Saturday, August 13, 2016 Today was a beautiful day. Today was a beautiful day...because I was (and am) alive. Today was wondrous beca...

Saturday, August 6, 2016 I have written extensively about my grief throughout the time I have maintained my blog. Grief is a strange dan...

Saturday, July 30, 2016 “Our addiction was like a veil over our heads. We saw the world as an ugly place. We saw people as trouble. We ...

Saturday, July 30, 2016 Yesterday a seed I (unknowingly) planted in November, 2003 came full circle. Yesterday, once again, I expressed...

Sunday, July 24, 2016 Today was an incredibly beautiful day. I think I will easily remember an element of what happened on this day for ...

Saturday, July 23, 2016 Dear Minnesota, I am writing to you to let you know the time is drawing near for me to take my leave of you. I...

Thursday, July 21, 2016 It's a broiling day (by local standards) here in Minnesota. My life here the last several years seems to hav...

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 On May 18, 1999 I left behind the life I had been living the prior nine months in Chicago, Illinois. I had been...

Monday, July 18, 2016 If your life has been touched by the life of a Jesuit your life will almost certainly never be the same. It'...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 I feel immensely grateful for this day that is now ending. It certainly ended in a way I was not expecting. I a...

Monday, July 11, 2016 Yesterday I recounted some of my day this past Saturday. Here is the conclusion of that day's story: The las...

Monday, July 11, 2016 I woke up this morning with a heaviness in my chest. Lately it has felt like something is seated on top of my ches...

Sunday, July 10, 2016 Yesterday was a day that featured both pleasure as well as intense sadness. Below is the content of a posting I sh...

Monday, July 4, 2016 I celebrated the three year anniversary of the beginning of my blog writing over this past weekend. I was fortunate...

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 "I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die." Lately my life seem...

Saturday, June 25, 2016 My life profoundly changed on this day three years ago. I was diagnosed with PTSD on June 25, 2013. It came as q...

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 I became a supporter of thoughtful regulation of guns when I was an eight year old boy and my father was nearly d...

Friday, June 17, 2016 Today was an eventful day. I had a court hearing this morning. I learned that someone I had invested a significa...

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 The media is quite lit up these days with all the horror of what happened in Orlando, Florida this past weekend...

Monday, June 13, 2016 So you would have to be living under a rock here in the United States to not have heard about what happened in Orl...

Sunday, June 12, 2016 I was away in Washington, DC this past week. I made the trip to attend Capitol Hill Ocean Week. I am glad I went. ...

Sunday, May 29, 2016 In the summer of 2014, approximately a year after I began working with my therapist, I was introduced to the idea o...

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 I have been conversing with a friend I still have never met. I suppose you could call him my electronic pen pal...