WHEN SHE DIED braves grief's gritty landscape with unflinching honesty. Additionally the in-real-time journal entries point to all the ups and downs, madnesses and heart-wrenching immediacy of a spousal loss. This is balanced by a retrospective on the death and its aftermath 30 years later.This book is anything but a clinicians take on grieving, rather it is an intensely private and thoughtfully laid out map for all the various stages of grief from a personal vantage point that ulti...

The Beatles changed music, our culture and they changed many of us individually. This is the true account of how The Beatles saw a troubled LA teen through his worst growing pains from 1963 to 1970."Many of us can measure our lives during the 1960's by the release dates of Beatles albums.Michael Mish's memoir aligns his own coming of age with the Fab Four's impact on music and social culture. It is rare to find a Beatles-related literary offering that transcends pure fan...

REVIEW5.0 out of 5 stars If you feel alone in your suffering, this is the book to hold.Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2022Verified PurchaseSomehow, Michael has been able to take the most searing loss and transform it into words that bless, comfort and inspire. Two other resources help me with grief: the movie: What Dreams May Come and the CD/book, Graceful Passages. When She Died stands powerfully beside these masterpieces. It brings understanding...

Humanity is being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize and upload those remaining minds to the block chain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to use and profit from. The creative mind, for the ET Hybrids is little understoo...

This is a fictional short story of a man’s life and death.The Greeks got it right long ago. Many aspects of our lives are tragic.The Father/son relationship – such an unsavory mix of love and hate. Pride and shame. Support and competition.Wouldn’t it stand to reason that what plays out in the family, also plays out on the world stage.And here, in as few words as possible, the irony of ironies is laid out in a narrative. An often humorous narrative. The son p...

Perspective Shifter. Life Changer. A mystic, philosopher, educator, natural psychologist, musician, "innocent abroad" shares insights that sparkle, transform, and excite. Michael Mish' mind and world view are cosmic, inclusive, pertinent, accessible, and profound. The grasp of Mish' reach makes one gasp as to the obvious truth in his clearly shared insights. I am widely read in the above fields, and an experienced counselor of thousands, yet even for me, this brilliant view is so refreshin...

“Many of us can measure our lives during the 1960’s by the release dates of Beatles albums. Michael Mish’s memoir aligns his own coming of age with the Fab Four’s impact on music and social culture. It is rare to find a Beatles-related literary offering that transcends pure fandom - They Held My Hand does so, eloquently and engagingly.”Laurence Juber - Lead Guitarist - WINGSI suppose there were a few of us. Those of us whose teen-age years coincided exactly with th...

We went our separate ways: Us and Them. We went on to civilize ourselves and they remained a nomadic and indigenous people. We used the bountiful resources of nature and they simply saw themselves as being nature. Now, we look back and see how they live and how we live. DIVERGENCE offers an insightful look at how we came to be separated from our natural environment and even our own basic nature from an anthropological perspective. DIVERGENCE explores the basic disconnections in our lives t...

Who have we become since evolving from our hunter-gatherer ancestors? While we may be under the impression that our lives have been made more manageable due to the myriad conveniences at home and in the work place, they're actually more complicated, stressful and dangerous. The First Peoples, however, have remained largely unchanged over the past several thousand years. As such, they want no part of our world. They are not seduced by our conveniences or modern way of life. It is at this ju...

We went our separate ways: Us and Them. We went on to civilize ourselves and they remained a nomadic and indigenous people. We used the bountiful resources of nature and they simply saw themselves as being nature. Now, we look back and see how they live and how we live.DIVERGENCE offers an insightful look at how we came to be separated from our natural environment and even our own basic nature from an anthropological perspective. DIVERGENCE explores the basic disconnections in our ...

Humanity is being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize and upload those remaining minds to the block chain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to explore and profit from.The hybrid elite meet their match with Cliff, ...

Being a masseuse is somewhat similar to being a hair dresser. One gets to know peoples' deepest secrets. Things people would never dare share with a spouse, their children or even a best friend, are shared with the masseuse. Why? It's because people, when having their hair done or having a massage, are completely relaxed. They have nowhere to go and nothing to do. A certain honesty emerges that isn't to be found anywhere else.These stories are all true accounts. Only in Thailand co...