JIM RALSTON was raised on a farm in upstate Michigan, when there was still a taste of wilderness in the north. He now lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and teaches at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. He recently returned from six weeks in Brazil, where he visited the healer John of God in Abadiania and was healed of his resentments. He says, “I arrived a skeptic and left a skeptic but was healed anyway.”

Confessions From A Conversion Van

by Jim Ralston, October 2009 (Issue 406)

You're In Here, Too

by Jim Ralston, July 2006 (Issue 367)

Don't Come Crying Home To Me

by Jim Ralston, March 2003 (Issue 327)

A View Of The Lake

by Jim Ralston, April 1999 (Issue 280)

Leaving Walden Pond

by Jim Ralston, October 1994 (Issue 226)

Balancing On The Wind

by Jim Ralston, April 1992 (Issue 197)

On The First Anniversary Of The Death Of Our Love

by Jim Ralston, June 1990 (Issue 175)

Another New Advancement Of Civilization

by Jim Ralston, August 1988 (Issue 153)

Hard Labor

by Jim Ralston, November 1986 (Issue 132)

The Choice Of Emptiness

by Jim Ralston, April 1984 (Issue 101)

The Choice Of Emptiness

by Jim Ralston, January 1983 (Issue 86)