Chapter Sixteen: Dances with Sunlight

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

What do you do when you wish to die and the Universe obviously has other plans?  Argue? Several days later I woke up in the hospital.  My mother was there.  I realized, to my horror, that by my own hand I had confirmed every negative opinion she had ever pronounced...

Chapter Fifteen: Blitzkrieg

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

After my grandfather’s death, family dynamics shifted dramatically.  For years my grandfather had managed my mother, knowing something was significantly wrong with her approach to life.  He could limit the damage she did to others by supervising her.  But all...

Chapter Fourteen: Pearls in the Oyster

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Shortly after my introduction into the field of hypnosis, I went to dinner with Grant on Christmas Eve 1973.  A few days earlier, he had announced that his divorce would soon be final.  He was monstrously depressed over it.  At dinner, he seemed distraught that his...

Chapter Thirteen: Oysters on the Half Shell

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

I ordered Keith’s telephone and went back to the Farm. Late September nights were cool and the days warm, sunny and dry.  The house had been closed for almost a year.  My brother was in the Navy and had married.  Mother had remarried and gone to the East Coast...

Chapter Twelve: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Keith Laumer had retired from the diplomatic corps to write, and had achieved some success and a reputation as a prolific science fiction novelist.  Keith was pleased to have sold movie rights to a book adapted for the screen with a starring role for Michael Caine....