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By Sherrie Ann Cassel (sic) It’s been a minute since I’ve been able to write. Seminary kept me hopping. I took three classes; two I really loved, and one was a necessary class, but not one I enjoyed all that much. One class was about the theological perspectives on substance use disorder; it was aContinue reading “Emerging from the Mud”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel I’m originally from San Diego, sand, beaches, sun, and pretty nice weather pretty much all year-round. My husband and I are now living in the high desert, Joshua Tree area; it’s frickin’ snowing here and even though I know other states have crazy snow, I’m not a fan. My son hatedContinue reading “Traipsing through Wonderland”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel I ran across a meme on Facebook this morning that characterized healing as a “beautiful journey.” I disagree. The outcome of the journey is healing, and that truly is a beautiful thing; however, when a wound is healing, it hurts, it itches, it scabs over, the nerve endings rejoin in aContinue reading “Transcending Grief”

By Sherrie Cassel Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ~Buddha, Mandela, Chodron, ad infinitum I want to write a semi-fictional story about a kid who grew up in chaos and insanity, and who grew into a self-actualized individual and who made great contributions in his socialContinue reading “Writing Chaos”

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By Sherrie Ann Cassel Tomorrow is the angelversary of the day I said goodbye to my son, my beautiful Rikki. I’ll not sit around today and ruminate about what was happening seven years ago on the day he died, but it was a beautiful day, as I recall, and we had been cruising around ChulaContinue reading “Year Seven”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel “There’s a feeling I get when I look to the west.” ~Robert Plant~ I was born in San Diego, in a hospital that later was used for a lockdown unit in a behavioral health facility. This historical fact still brings my mother such glee when she reminds me of my earlyContinue reading “The Odyssey”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Today the world reopens into a brand-new year. Stores, banks, and post offices resume their routines, and we get back onto our roads and freeways to rejoin them after a time of celebration, rest, or grief over something loved and lost forever. The holidays are a rainbow of many shades ofContinue reading “Happy New Year — Again”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Christmas, the Yuletide, Black Fridays at Walmart, or whatever you celebrate this time of year, thank heavens it’s over for another year. I made it through as did all who were grieving the loss of a loved one, a very recent loss, or the loss of a child from seven yearsContinue reading “Multi-tasking”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel I’ve loved, although I didn’t know it for much of my young life, formulaic stories, i.e., the messiah story, the hero, the anti-hero, from Bathsheba to Bukowski. I like walking in the parameters a writer works within. I’ve never read much fiction, unless it was deep, dark, and depressing. I lovedContinue reading “Healing through the Holidays”