My altering self-examination for the past fifteen years has been obviously challenging, uncompromising, unrelenting, sometimes cutting, certainly penetrating, truly releasing, ultimately redemptive and freeing. Strange as it sounds, as I searched for and discovered my own vices, I searched for and discovered the virtues in others. It always comes back to the same thing: go [...]
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My cancer was and still is like a pencil sharpener. It has honed my awareness of myself, this moment, others, and things around me. It has made me realize more than ever that the sin of everything I do in my personal and professional life is that of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake. [...]
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It was not a very happy Mother’s Day in the Schmier house this past Sunday. My Susan was especially sullen and sad. It was the first Mother’s Day without her elderly mother with whom she was close. Her mother has mercifully died nearly two weeks ago after four and a half grueling, pain-filled months filled [...]
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