Proof of Heaven

have a living person, whom you spoke to and joked with in better days, become a lifeless object on an ...

8. Israel By eight the next morning, Holley was back in my room. She spelled Phyllis, taking her place ...

found in the stomach of a patient who died in a North Carolina hospital. The strain immediately got the attent ...

Could I have somehow picked up an antibiotic-proof KPC-harboring bacteria while I was over in Israel? It ...

9. The Core Meanwhile, I was in a place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply a ...

A warm wind blew through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the ...

completely minuscule I was by comparison. I will occasionally use Om as the pronoun for God because I originall ...

to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger pi ...

10. What Counts Holley didn’t fail to notice how interested the doctors became when she mentioned my trip to ...

anywhere for quite some time. His new commanding officer would not allow him to go back to the States unti ...

He was a demanding parent, but also a wonderful one. He treated everyone he met with respect ...

knew that wherever I had come from, I was their brother and they were my sisters. I grew up in ...

to Maine for a weekend of skiing when I remembered I was due to give Betty a call to check on her pro ...

out all around us. I put the car in gear, squinted carefully into the rearview mirror, and ...

for falling into this ditch of despair and did whatever she could to pull me up out of it. My depression h ...

11. An End to the Downward Spiral For much of the next seven years my career, and my family l ...

to know more about my biological family. My two sons, ages 9 and 19, are interested in their heritage. ...

for Unwed Mothers, located next to Charlotte Memorial Hospital. All of the girls there had code names, a ...

one last great push, she gave birth to her first child. Ann told me that she wanted so much to hold ...

trying desperately to come up with a plan that would succeed in keeping me with her. Once she ...