I can't believe it either: we actually elected a black president. I'm ashamed to realize that I underestimated my fellow citizens, but I think it's the same old story: the bigoted minority makes the most noise. Bishop Shelby Spong once said, "Religions are like swimming pools, most of the noise comes from the shallow end." I think politics is...

We recently did a live Coast to Coast AM radio show again, after a hiatus of many years, when we started broadcasting from a studio in our home, then moved to the internet. We were in a different studio (in California instead of Texas) but other than that, not much had changed, except in one big way. It was the same as always: taking along...

Talk about revelations! I thought I knew everything about Whitley's UFO experiences, but I've gotten two new pieces of information?one of them brand-new?which put it in a whole new light. One of the pieces isn't really new. I learned it about 4 years ago, when Whitley accompanied me to a psychologist, after I got home from being in the...

In the play (and later movie) "Prelude to a Kiss," an old man manages to enter the body of a beautiful young bride when he kisses her, to the great consternation of the bridegroom (who somehow KNOWS his new wife is different, and he's right: She's now a grouchy old man in a beautiful young woman's body!) When the old man is finally...

I know that as a diarist, I'm expected to write about our recent Dreamland Festival, but I'm not sure where to start. One of the problems is that everyone attended "their own" festival, depending on which talks meant the most to them and on whom they met. One thing that worked beautifully, though: we all had LOTS of personal interaction with...

I had experiences recently with what might be called "the extraordinary ordinary," a term I coined after reading over half a million Communion letters from common, everyday people who'd had what can only be called transformative experiences with some sort of alternative life form. It all started with a visit from the powerful psychic Glennys...

Whitley and I just had a week of amazing adventure: Doing a "cameo" on the set of a major motion picture. It was a classic movie set, with security guards stationed everywhere and people of all races and colors walking around doing "ordinary" things, such as drinking coffee or talking on their cellphones, while dressed in outlandish "Star Trek...

Every year I seem to write an Easter Diary, and I don't see why this year should be any exception. I actually went to church this year, and although I didn't really want to go (and had all sorts of fantasies about what would happen there), I'm glad I did. I don't much care for organized religion and I always tell people, "I don't go to...

Two years ago I wrote about the problem I have recognizing faces since my stroke. This problem is so subtle that I'm not always sure I actually have it, but it has given me some interesting realizations about what is considered "attractive" in today's society. I have another strange legacy as well: I find that the interior of almost every...

Over the years, I've been amused by the fact that we are spied on from time to time. These spies seem to be from government agencies, either foreign or domestic, and they seem to think they are going to discover something clandestine that we hold close to our chests, while the truth is, as I keep telling these folks, we have NO secrets. We...

So many of us crave stability more than anything else, and maybe we shouldn't--maybe we should all be more ADVENTUROUS instead, ESPECIALLY as we get older!

I got to thinking about ancestors recently. When I lived in New York City, I occasionally dropped into the big public library on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, where I would walk past the Genealogy Room, where people sat behind huge stacks of books, looking up their ancestry. I suspected they wanted to do the job themselves, because when you...

We just came back from a trip drone hunting and going to the California wine country with some good ol' friends from Texas, who were in California visiting their grandson. One problem with visiting vineyards is that you end up tasting wines in the middle of the day, then you have to get back into your car, when all you really want to do is...

I recently went to tea with two people--one of the young girls who just lost her mother and the girl's aunt. The aunt went on and on about how cancer is a choice, which I thought was a particularly inappropriate thing to do in front of someone whose mother had just died from that disease. I've heard this sort of thing from so-called "New Age...