Posts from the ‘personal history’ category

In Charlie’s Space and Time

“Healthy people base their lives on healing, authentic stories. Empowerment comes through the process of telling those stories.” — Theologian Matthew Fox * The keepers and tellers…

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Welcome Home, Cowboy Bob

When I was four years old, I asked everyone to call me “Cowboy Bob.” I can hear myself pausing indignantly and growling, “Don’t call me Lucy.…

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In Search of My Grandfather’s Laugh

I am a pack-rat of the highest order. I save everything. Well, not everything. I save memories. Photographs, letters, old cassette tapes with recordings of friends…

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The Taraval Tunnel: Darkness to Light

A Story Narrated by Roslyn Whitney The Taraval Tunnel is a story of darkness to light, of traveling through fear and moving beyond it by trust…

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