Bøger af Michael Goldberg

It's 1972, and the Sixties are gone, baby gone. Only Michael Stein, Age 19, doesn't have a clue. Soon enough he will. The love is gone and all that's left are the drugs. How the dream died and what there is left after. How you cope. A Northern California beach-side town, and Michael Stein, a serious Bob Dylan fan, is bummed out as he walks across the quad at The University. He is searching, searching for what he calls the authentic real. A way he felt, a way he lived, in the late Sixties, in the days when he was with her, his high school girlfriend, his first love. Searching for who he was before he lost Sweet Sarah, and his life crashed and burned. But on this day Michael Stein is different. He's not who he used to be. He's Writerman. As Writerman, he's aware of so much. As Michael Stein, he doesn't have a clue. Michael Stein. Writerman. The young man. The Myth. Michael Stein is obsessed with sex. Writerman too; only for Writerman the sex is more than sex. Sex is the door to intimacy, and transcendence. And women, especially one woman, his Visions of Johanna, is the only door he knows to escape into ecstasy, and free himself from himself. For Michael Stein, the Sixties ended in the nut house. His parents blamed his erratic behavior on drugs. Michael Stein blames himself. After all, he broke his Sweet Sarah's heart. Aware. Both Michael Stein and Writerman are aware they are living through one of the biggest social changes America has experienced. Trouble is, Michael Stein isn't aware that the Sixties are over. Writerman, though, always The Warrior, always The Seeker, Writerman has a clue: The love is gone and all that's left is the drugs. Michael Stein, on that sunny day on the quad, well something extraordinary happens. He meets a fellow traveler, Lord Jim, an uninhibited freakster bro who's going to turn Michael Stein on to more than the drugs. Michael Stein doesn't know it yet but he is about to set forth on the wildest ride of his life. "True Love Scars" is book one of the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy. These three books are one long deep breath. The exhale is obsessive, transgressive. How macho meets feminism. How second chakra rises up to third. Through all the women: Sweet Sarah, Beat-Chick Elise, Jaded, Simone, Harper, Eve. A puff, a party, a tragedy -from marijuana to angel dust, teenage heartbreak to addiction, from "All You Need is Love" to the junked-out punk of the New York Dolls. "True Love Scars." Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll like you've never experienced them. If you liked Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" or J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" or Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity," this book, which some might call "Literary Fiction" and others might call "New Adult," is for you. "Michael Goldberg is comparable to Kerouac in a 21st century way..." MARK MORDUE, author of "Dastgah: Diary of a Head Trip" "True Love Scars reads like a fever dream from the dying days of the Summer of Love. Writerman pitches headlong into a haze of drugs, sex and confusion in search of what no high can bring: his own redemption. Read it and be transformed." ALINA SIMONE, author of "Note to Self" and "You Must Go and Win" "So who is this protagonist anyway? Holden Caulfield meets Lord Buckley?" PAUL KRASSNER, founder of The Realist, author of "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture" "Radioactive as Godzilla." RICHARD MELTZER, author of "The Aesthetics of Rock" "It's a terrific read." TOM SPANBAUER, author of "I Loved You More" "Michael Goldberg paints crazy intimate portraits of the excesses and eccentricities of the sexual revolution. He speaks to us in the voice and language of the brave microculture of his youth. To hear a voice from this realm is a blessing. JOLIE HOLLAND, musician, whose albums include Catalpa and Wine Dark Sea "His prose is hallucinogenic in all the best ways." DAVID BROWNE, Rolling Stone Contributing Editor, author of "

Discover how to improve the most important conversation you or your practice will ever have - the one between your practice and a new patient.The economy has significantly changed America's consumer buying patterns and habits. What was working before in so many businesses no longer works. At least, not as effectively. This applies to Dentistry as much as any other business.Dentists are struggling. Some don't even know it because they're so bogged down working IN the practice. Practices are realizing that their experienced front desks were not scheduling as many patients as they had previously.Some blame it on marketing. But the role of marketing is to get the phone to ring. If it's not answered properly, marketing dollars are wasted.During a 40+ year career as a practice owner and consultant to hundreds of dental practices, I noticed a glaring deficiency. The phones, perhaps the life-blood of the dental practice, are given too little attention. This book seeks to remedy that so as a profession, we can positively impact the lives of more people.When a patient sees their new smile, are relieved of pain, able to chew again, and even get a better night's sleep....their lives are transformed. They could HUG you. Dentists can provide help that few other professions or businesses can. It's a privilege.But no one gets to see you until they jump through a few hoops. One of those hoops is the phone. Let's lower the barrier.

Praise for the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, including "Untitled" "Oral prose. School of Twain and Salinger. It's improvised, and its immediate and delayed echoes, its ellipses, its obsessions, make music." LARRY BECKETT, author of "Morning Glory" and "Paul Bunyan" "Michael Goldberg's sharply drawn characters, vivid musical nods, and keen eye for detail transport us back to the post-countercultural mid-1970s when sex and drugs and rock & roll were a way of life. In this third installment of the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, antihero Writerman takes us along for the rollercoaster ride - angel dust, anyone? - while he tries to make sense of a life littered with broken hearts. A page-turner." HOLLY GEORGE-WARREN, author of "A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" "Relive the 1970s - the music, the dope, the clothes, the books, the confused and restless sexual politics - in all their filthy glory." MARIA BUSTILLOS, author of "Dorkismo: the Macho of the Dork" and "Act Like a Gentleman, Think Like a Woman." "Michael Goldberg is comparable to Kerouac in a 21st century way, someone trying to use that language and energy and find a new way of doing it." MARK MORDUE, author of "Dastgah: Diary of a Head Trip" "Goldberg presents us with a beautiful evocation of the Seventies where the music wasn't just the soundtrack to our lives but the auteur of them. Writerman, our hero, drinks and drugs and dances to the nightingale tune while birds fly high by the light of the moon. Oh, oh, oh, oh Writerman!" LARRY RATSO SLOMAN, author of "On the Road with Bob Dylan" "Radioactive as Godzilla. RICHARD MELTZER, author of "The Aesthetics of Rock" "Penned in a staccato amphetamine grammar, its narrative is fractured and deranged, often unsettling but frequently compelling, an unsparing portrait of the teen condition: assured then despairing, would-be sex god then impotent has-been, an only child battling the wills of his domineering father and interfering mom in the anonymous, suburban fringes of Marin County." SIMON WARNER, author of "Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture" "So who is this protagonist anyway? Holden Caulfield meets Lord Buckley?" PAUL KRASSNER, author of "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture" "'True Love Scars' reads like a fever dream from the dying days of the Summer of Love. Keyed to a soundtrack of love and apocalypse, Writerman pitches headlong into a haze of drugs, sex and confusion in search of what no high can bring: his own redemption. Read it and be transformed." ALINA SIMONE, author of "Note to Self" and "You Must Go and Win" "True Love Scars is deeply dialed in to rock's dichotomy of enlightening powers versus stonered party time." GREG M. SCHWARTZ, PopMatters "Michael Goldberg reminds us of the difficulties of remaining true to our own visions amidst the powerful exigencies of young adulthood." JOLIE HOLLAND, recording artist, whose albums include Catalpa, Escondida and The Living and the Dead

Praise for the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, including "The Flowers Lied" "There was a time when (rock) music was the living pulse of a generation... That is the era of the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, an ambitious and ultimately successful attempt at recasting the coming-of-age-in-the-wake-of-the-sixties-experience in innovative but authentic language, Kerouac in the 21st century." DENNIS MCNALLY, author of "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead" and "Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & America" "If Lester Bangs had ever published a novel it might have read something like this frothing debut by longtime music journalist Michael Goldberg... Readers from any musical era will come away with a deeper appreciation of how nostalgia can shape our lives, for better and for worse." COLIN FLEMING, Rolling Stone "Goldberg presents us with a beautiful evocation of the Seventies where the music wasn't just the soundtrack to our lives but the auteur of them. Writerman, our hero, drinks and drugs and dances to the nightingale tune while birds fly high by the light of the moon. Oh, oh, oh, oh Writerman!" LARRY RATSO SLOMAN, author of "On the Road with Bob Dylan" "Michael Goldberg is comparable to Kerouac in a 21st century way, someone trying to use that language and energy and find a new way of doing it." MARK MORDUE, author of "Dastgah: Diary of a Head Trip" "Penned in a staccato amphetamine grammar, its narrative is fractured and deranged, often unsettling but frequently compelling, an unsparing portrait of the teen condition: assured then despairing, would-be sex god then impotent has-been, an only child battling the wills of his domineering father and interfering mom in the anonymous, suburban fringes of Marin County."
SIMON WARNER, author of "Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture" "Aspiring rock journalist Michael Stein (aka Writerman) returns in the second installment of Goldberg's Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, picking up the narrative where he left off and fumbling his way across the countercultural landscape of the early Seventies like some less jaded, wannabe-hippie version of Holden Caulfield... "Among the more memorable scenes: a hamfisted attempt to get his rock journalism published in the college newspaper, even more awkward attempts to get laid (that include at least one success, with his best friend's girlfriend, no less, in a gondola at the top of a Ferris wheel), getting thrown out of a Neil Young concert by one of Bill Graham's goons, navigating a surreal Halloween party while peaking on LSD, and kibitzing with a popular Lester Bangs-esque rock-crit. Along the way we get cameos from Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Captain Beefheart, the New York Dolls, Slim Harpo, James Brown, John Fowles, Sartre, Dostoyevsky and Godard. Settle in, crack open a bottle and/or spark a doob, and get ready for an emotional rollercoaster ride. Oh, and don't touch the Thorens." FRED MILLS, editor, Blurt magazine "So who is this protagonist anyway? Holden Caulfield meets Lord Buckley?" PAUL KRASSNER, author of "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture" "'True Love Scars' reads like a fever dream from the dying days of the Summer of Love. Keyed to a soundtrack of love and apocalypse, Writerman pitches headlong into a haze of drugs, sex and confusion in search of what no high can bring: his own redemption. Read it and be transformed." ALINA SIMONE, author of "Note to Self" and "You Must Go and Win" "Radioactive as Godzilla. RICHARD MELTZER, author of "The Aesthetics of Rock" "True Love Scars is deeply dialed in to rock's dichotomy of enlightening powers versus stonered party time." GREG M. SCHWARTZ, PopMatters "Michael Goldberg reminds us of the difficulties of remaining true to our own visions amidst the powerful exigencies of young adulthood." JOLIE HOLLAND, recording artist, whose albums include Catalpa, Escondida and The Living and the

Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist.

Raising Spirits: Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death''s Door springs from Michael Goldberg''s experiences serving dying patients as a hospital and hospice chaplain. Previously, he had held positions as a management consultant, a chaired university professor, and a congregational rabbi. Although each of those careers fulfilled some of his professional aspirations, none filled his spiritual hunger to find purpose in his life. In turning to chaplaincy and helping the gravely ill satisfy their craving for meaning at the end of their lives, Goldberg discovered spiritual sustenance in his.Raising Spirits is the first book to explore care giving at the end of life from a spiritual as well as clinical perspective. It tells the stories of Michael Goldberg''s journeys with patients, their families, and loved ones as they try to face the challenges awaiting them at life''s edges. In the process, Goldberg himself is tested as a committed Jew who, working largely among non-Jews, must continually reassess his identity and convictions. He comes to see that ""spirituality"" need not refer to things occult or otherworldly, but as Raising Spirits makes clear, to things in this world that can at least start to lift our spirits and revive them. The reciprocal process of gaining insight into patients and into oneself is possible, indeed crucial, for all who care for the sick, both lay and professional alike.""In this gem of a collection of stories about care at the end of life, Rabbi and Chaplain Michael Goldberg restores the spirits of his patients (and readers) as he deftly navigates from the intensive care unit to the nursing home, from a patient''s home to their funeral. Across cultures and religious traditions, with steady doses of humility, wisdom, compassion, and humor, Goldberg''s words are a healing balm to the often spiritually uncomfortable journey of dying.""--Nassim AssefiInternist and global women''s health specialist, author of Aria ""With rare honesty and humility, Rabbi Goldberg welcomes the reader to accompany him into the pain-filled world of patients and families at the edge of life. He overcomes the real world challenges of the hospital or hospice stay to bring a measure of compassion and comfort to those who suffer. Proverbs teaches that, ""The heart alone knows its bitterness."" In truth, Goldberg is that rare individual who understands the pain of another''s heart and has the ability to ease that pain.""--Rabbi Sheldon PennesDirector of Spiritual Life at the Los Angeles Jewish Home""This book is not smarmy! The stories are so gripping that you won''t want to put them down. Essential reading for all who care for the dying, including their families.""--Nancey MurphyProfessor of Christian PhilosophyFuller Seminaryauthor of Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?""These remarkable stories not only reflect the experience of many dying patients, but allow readers to accompany Rabbi Goldberg in his journey of becoming a Chaplain. He reveals his own search through openly sharing his thoughts and feelings. Any Chaplain, caregiver for the dying, or simply a human being on a quest to understand what this life is all about will benefit from reading this book.""--Judith Eighmy, RN, BSN, CHPNHospice ConsultantPacific Healthcare Consultants""Raising Spirits is a gift to anyone who has been deeply affected by experiences in healthcare. All will irresistibly be reminded of the powerfully clarifying and confusing nature of suffering and death. Michael''s pathway from thinker to caregiver might be unremarkable, but for his gift of truth-telling--how many of us receive hope and comfort, even though all too often, we simply can''t help or understand. That is Grace.""--Richard VanceChrysalis Ventures""Poignant and brilliant . . . Raising Spirits is an uncommon resource for practical and pastoral theology and religious education. Be prepared to venture into unfamiliar territory! Rabbi Michael Goldberg, a systematic theologian

Description:Raising Spirits: Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death''s Door springs from Michael Goldberg''s experiences serving dying patients as a hospital and hospice chaplain. Previously, he had held positions as a management consultant, a chaired university professor, and a congregational rabbi. Although each of those careers fulfilled some of his professional aspirations, none filled his spiritual hunger to find purpose in his life. In turning to chaplaincy and helping the gravely ill satisfy their craving for meaning at the end of their lives, Goldberg discovered spiritual sustenance in his.Raising Spirits is the first book to explore care giving at the end of life from a spiritual as well as clinical perspective. It tells the stories of Michael Goldberg''s journeys with patients, their families, and loved ones as they try to face the challenges awaiting them at life''s edges. In the process, Goldberg himself is tested as a committed Jew who, working largely among non-Jews, must continually reassess his identity and convictions. He comes to see that ""spirituality"" need not refer to things occult or otherworldly, but as Raising Spirits makes clear, to things in this world that can at least start to lift our spirits and revive them. The reciprocal process of gaining insight into patients and into oneself is possible, indeed crucial, for all who care for the sick, both lay and professional alike.Endorsements:""In this gem of a collection of stories about care at the end of life, Rabbi and Chaplain Michael Goldberg restores the spirits of his patients (and readers) as he deftly navigates from the intensive care unit to the nursing home, from a patient''s home to their funeral. Across cultures and religious traditions, with steady doses of humility, wisdom, compassion, and humor, Goldberg''s words are a healing balm to the often spiritually uncomfortable journey of dying.""--Nassim AssefiInternist and global women''s health specialist, author of Aria ""With rare honesty and humility, Rabbi Goldberg welcomes the reader to accompany him into the pain-filled world of patients and families at the edge of life. He overcomes the real world challenges of the hospital or hospice stay to bring a measure of compassion and comfort to those who suffer. Proverbs teaches that, ""The heart alone knows its bitterness."" In truth, Goldberg is that rare individual who understands the pain of another''s heart and has the ability to ease that pain.""--Rabbi Sheldon PennesDirector of Spiritual Life at the Los Angeles Jewish Home""This book is not smarmy! The stories are so gripping that you won''t want to put them down. Essential reading for all who care for the dying, including their families.""--Nancey MurphyProfessor of Christian PhilosophyFuller Seminaryauthor of Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?""These remarkable stories not only reflect the experience of many dying patients, but allow readers to accompany Rabbi Goldberg in his journey of becoming a Chaplain. He reveals his own search through openly sharing his thoughts and feelings. Any Chaplain, caregiver for the dying, or simply a human being on a quest to understand what this life is all about will benefit from reading this book.""--Judith Eighmy, RN, BSN, CHPNHospice ConsultantPacific Healthcare Consultants""Raising Spirits is a gift to anyone who has been deeply affected by experiences in healthcare. All will irresistibly be reminded of the powerfully clarifying and confusing nature of suffering and death. Michael''s pathway from thinker to caregiver might be unremarkable, but for his gift of truth-telling--how many of us receive hope and comfort, even though all too often, we simply can''t help or understand. That is Grace.""--Richard VanceChrysalis Ventures""Poignant and brilliant . . . Raising Spirits is an uncommon resource for practical and pastoral theology and religious education. Be prepared to venture into unfamiliar territory! Rabbi Michael Goldber