A Curse My Blessing

This autobiography recounts a twenty-year quest to experience an authentic faith in God. It wrestles conventional spirituality in ways previously unimagined beginning with the biblical account of Jesus cursing a fig tree and the power this obscure image held in the author's mind. The quest spans college years at America's top evangelical college his rejection of Christianity a flight to Kodiak hallucinogenic drugs and a crazy motorcycle trip back to Alaska during the winter. There he meets a seventeen year old hippie girl reading Zelda Fitzgerald and they wonder together if they can fall in love like Zelda and Scott and beat madness. After an unlikely two-year courtship they marry and become Baptist Christians. They then return to the lower 48 jumping full force into the Nashville music industry and experience the break-up of a twelve-year marriage as all goes bust -- and finally a revisiting from the curse of the fig tree story with fresh meaning and a hidden revelation.