“For a moment Lorena could almost see Grandma running to greet them, her silver hair flying, and Grandpa greeting them in his full, almost shouting voice.” Memories can be confusing, even when they feel good: Grandma has passed away,... Read More

Eight-year-old Sam is living the life of Riley. His home in Seldovia, Alaska allows him to go clamming with his dad, watch his mother fly her Bush plane across the sound to the bigger cities, and come face-to-face with sea otters. In... Read More

“ ‘New Age’ is a convenient term,“ writes the author, “to describe the rapid growth of mystical and psychic awareness that spread around the world in the late 1960s and has continued to grow, expand, and develop ever since.”... Read More

As the sun begins to caress the horizon, a young woman sits on dew-moistened grass. Eyes closed, her hands feel the stability of the earth and the cool cleansing of the dew. She asks the earth and water to help her to release any... Read More

Americans grow up believing in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. While Westerners have found relative consensus on life and liberty, an agreed-upon definition of happiness is elusive. Today, according to some, the pursuit of... Read More

With contemporary combat relatively fresh in memory, this futuristic war, set in Tennessee against alien invaders, is surrealistic, particularly since nuclear weapons are tossed around as if they were hand grenades. However, it can be... Read More

The author tells a harrowing story of being held in several Japanese prison camps in Java for three years and seven months during World War II. Rentz was the chief radio operator aboard a B-17 bomber when it was shot down by Japanese... Read More

“I grew up in an era in which making wisecracks about women was fairly standard preaching fare, good for a few laughs,” writes the author in her introduction. Although such jokes may no longer be “standard fare” in most pulpits,... Read More