"It is love I feel in that mirrored presence.

Magnificent and radiant as light,

Love is in front of me and in me,

Always present."

"There hung 10,000 origami cranes, flying on a hundred strands of diligently folded paper prayer promise."

"It was love at first sight. Her coat—jet-black, shining so intensely—took my breath away."

My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With a Dread Disease tells the story of cancer's passage through three generations of the Mintie family. This deeply personal account relates the heartbreak, hope and occasional hilarity that travel with any lethal diagnosis.

Dharma Wheels is an examination of human happiness through the triple lenses of Zen Buddhism, cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] and the art of motorcycling. Each lens resolves particular details of one and the same picture - the great process of human living and dying. Zen addresses first questions of life’s meaning and death’s certainty.

Reclaiming Life after Trauma addresses both the physical and psychological expressions of PTSD, presenting an integrative, fast-acting, evidence-based, and drug-free path to recovery. Authors Daniel Mintie, LCSW, and Julie K. Staples, Ph.D., begin with an overview of PTSD and the ways in which it changes our bodies and minds. They present research findings on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and yoga, giving the reader insights into how these powerful modalities can counteract and reverse the physical and mental aftereffects of trauma.