Some of you may know that I created and conduct The Ah-Man Freedom Workshops, all-day sessions that address the three principals of Trust, Forgiveness and Acceptance.  This month, I’ll be focusing on each of those principals.  First up…Trust. Let’s face it; we have all experienced losing trust.  When someone we love or respect or just […]

I Am Ah-Man, Man-Heart-Trust is the result of my desire to write my memoirs.  I wrote the book after I had been sober for 10 years, and it depicts how I was able to bear my continuing life experiences – death, disease, divorce, and more – while staying connected to myself, my heart, my Ah-Man, […]

For the past few weeks, I have shared the story of my life journey; from discovering who I was and why I was here at a very young age…to losing everything due to my addictions…to rediscovering who I was. However, as exciting it was to get back in touch with who I was, it was […]

I'll pick up where I left off last week.  One morning I awoke to find I was passing blood through my urine.  I knew this was not good.  I had been on the blood thinner Coumadin since my second open heart surgery 4 years earlier.  But because of my heavy drinking (alcohol is also a […]

When we last left 18-year-old Michael, he/I had gone to an ashram in West Virginia to become a monk. A couple of years later, I left the monastery, and it gradually became apparent that I was no longer acting from the place of who I was, i.e., a spirit soul, part and parcel of God, […]