In a time when jobs are tough to come by, health insurance is only a dream and pollen is rollin in like The Fog from that Adrienne Barbeau movie...it's nice to know that my thoughts on heaven are getting published!

Yep, Charlotte's  Linda Matney has put together a great book as a fundraiser for Hospice, and I am fortunate enough to be a contributor. Imagining Heaven: An Anthology of Personal Views of Heaven is a labor of love by Mrs Matney, inspired by the comfort she found imagining the afterlife when her own husband was dying of cancer. You may purchase the book Imagining Heaven at http://www.imaginingheaven.com  and submit your own visions for the next volume!

Here's a bit of my rambling: 

All the pets I have ever known are waiting for me, able to talk, and full of explanations of everything I never understood they were trying to tell me. After many laughs over the past, and the reconciling of why I want a steak still, we pull up a holographic TV screen and watch my last moments on death-cam video, commenting on people's reactions and my expressions at the last minute. I make a note to find out when my funeral is, and if I can go and haunt it. I hate to miss that many of my friends in the same place for the only time in history. I fall asleep on the couch and, for the first time in decades, do not worry about plumbing, taxes, or my “check engine” light. In my dreams, I visit my loved ones and closest friends and do a good deed for each, but can't resist turning the stereo volume wide open in their cars for a morning surprise.

            I awake and find myself in my favorite camouflage shorts and “board to death” surfing tee. They fit great, and my obliterated kneecap and crunched foot bones are all pain free and fully functional. I sprint down the stairs and take a path to a huge log-cabin type library, where you can look up the answer to anything you can remember to ask. Was Area 51 a botched scout for the second coming? What was the deal with the UFO I saw in the 90s? Why were the popes more revered than useful? Was there a Loch Ness Monster or not? Where is the Stonehenge construction video? Did Carlos Castaneda do half the stuff he talked about in those books from the 70s? Why was Rush Limbaugh allowed to go on for so long? Was Glenn Beck the lovechild of Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs? After a hectic quizzical search till my eyes are tired, I go to find food and folks.