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If I searched statistics to find which of the hundreds of essays on this blog has been read the most, strangely enough, it wouldn't be the one about enmeshment. Before reading   Glimpsing Heaven ,  Judy Bachrach 's new book about near death experiences, seeing  ghosts , in this doc's professional world, had been associated with religious beliefs (cultural delusions) or mental illness. Now I'll have to rewrite the post. There exists a quiet, circumspect, yet substantial population reporting near death experiences (NDE's), according to IANDS , the International Association for Near-Death Studies . Approximately 200,000 Americans a year tell select friends or relatives that they experienced life after death. They speak of travel beyond the moon, past Mars, no spaceship necessary. Even Oprah  has chimed in. She interviewed actress Sharon Stone , an experiencer . Ms. Bachrach, who is a journalist and rightfully suspicious of the whole business, set out to find them. H

Me Before You: Joj We're already in gift-giving season. My favorites are the intangibles. Y esterday was Veteran's Day in the USA, and coincidentally, I had just finished reading Me Before You ., a book about disability. The story doesn't relabel disability as differently-abled . Will Traynor, before his accident, could do almost anything, but he no longer can.   My daughter-in-law tossed the book at me, had knocked it off in a day. But it seemed sophomoric, at first, took me awhile to get into. But when someone else really likes something, you try a little harder. The word in Hollywood is that  Emilia Clarke  of Game of Thrones will star in a coming movie as Louisa Clark, no relation, and Sam Claflin  of Hunger Games is a likely Will Traynor. So we'll keep the spoilers to a bare minimum.    Chick   lit , sure, but much to take away. Me Before You-Jojo Moyes Louisa Clark is an ordinary enough person, a r eally good person, the type of young adult who steps up when