Yesterday Mary Adams-Eck, co-owner of the Co-Creator Network, interviewed me on her weekly Internet radio show. We covered a wide range of topics, from forgiveness as I dealt with it in my novel When Gulls Fly Low, to fear and the craziness it engenders, as well as how to deal…
Competition has long been revered, at least in our capitalistic society. The mere mention of the word has been known to bring tears to the eyes of captains of industry and athletes, among others. Many believe that whatever we have that is of value we owe to the blessings of…
There is an athletic team you may not have heard of. They are not affiliated with any city, league or country. They are what you might call freelance. They call themselves Team Hoyt, composed of father and son Dick and Rick Hoyt. You may want to watch a video about…
“I don’t recall the last time I was reading a book that I literally could not put down until completing it, until I got “When Gulls Fly Low”. This work is so well written, with a story that will have you turning each page, eager to see what the characters will experience next. The ending I expect will have you wiping tears of joy from your eyes as a result of it’s beauty, as I did mine. A treasure to read and re-read.”
David C.
Once upon a time in the mid-1970s, toward the end of the Watergate fiasco, comedian Rich Little did an impression of President Richard Nixon. In it he said, “Richard Nixon is the kind of man who, if you were drowning 20 feet off shore, would throw you eleven feet of…
My father would have been 98 this year. I wrote this poem about him several years before he died, and it still expresses much of who he was to me then. Later, even after his death, I added some more dimensions to my knowledge of him. He was above all…
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the famous words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first inaugural address, and while he showed much greater insight than most people, before or since, he didn’t have it all figured out. Not by a long shot.…
Written by Ned B. Johnson As told by Hank Freyman Hank Freyman is a long-time lover of jazz and has been active in a jazz/vocal ensemble in New York City for some time. The group enjoys performing at hospitals and nursing homes whenever they can. One such outing recently took…
When I was in my early 20s, I developed a bad case of resentment about forgiveness. My reasoning was straightforward and fairly simple. I saw the act of forgiveness as being equivalent to saying: “Even though you are a bad person who does bad things, I, being a superior and…
Many readers of my novel When Gulls Fly Low have remarked that they found it to be a wonderful lesson in forgiveness. One even said it was the best book on forgiving she’d ever read. At first, this mystified me, because I’d never thought of it as anything like that.…
