Ken Pierce

Many people believe having suicidal thoughts of hopelessness, uselessness and helplessness is only bad and probably crazy.

Many people believe you can lose without gaining or that you can gain without losing. But nature ensures there is a perfect balance at...

Trust is a very misunderstood idea. Biologically, we are hard-wired to trust ourselves first because our survival depends on it.

Cancer is often misunderstood. Many people fear it and death needlessly. Our pending future death is a lever to motivate us in our present.

Our cultures tend to portray the deceased as either an angel or a devil. This one-sided view can paralyze the grief process for weeks...

The old saying goes like this, “Everyone Makes Mistakes!” But are there mistakes or accidents in a universe that is so old...

It is natural and normal for half of all marriages to end in divorce. Yet, we struggle to quantify the emotional parts of our lives.

Raul was an experienced physiotherapist. He had been in practice for over 18 years. He loved his work, was good at it and devoted...

“The only difference between discipline and punishment is one word.” Rakim was a new dad.

Vivan was a slightly plump 35-year-old who loved animals, especially cats. Vivan had worked at an animal shelter for several years...

Xiomara was a twelve-year-old skeptic. Her Mom, Xiander, was a nurse, while her Dad, Xiang managed a factory that made fishing gear.

“Holidays were hard times for her.”  Wilhelmina (Willy) was a hardened woman of 55 years who lived alone in a rooming house.

“…except Sekai was slowly going, what she termed, “crazy!” Sekai was approaching the “Big 40” and raising two teens. 

Quentin was a 30-year-old MBA student who was in the last year of his degree.

Lacy was a veteran. She was a thirty-eight-year-old pert, attractive woman who looked as neat and trimmed in her current brightly coloured

“He had gotten a tattoo…”

“…his determination to beat his family’s odds.”

Naak was 25 years old and one of those tall, dark and handsome stereotypes we see in the movies periodically.