Join Rob McConnell as he welcomes Bruce F. Rosen, award-winning writer, journalist, financial professional, and author of the deeply personal memoir If You Ever Need Me, I Won’t Be Far Away. Rosen has written professionally for decades, with work appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and Asian Week. His writing has also reached the BBC, while an essay about his childhood baseball hero Sandy Koufax was featured by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rosen holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara and a master's degree in international relations from San Francisco State University. At the emotional heart of Rosen's memoir is his extraordinary relationship with his mother, Alma Lorraine Rosen, to whom the book is dedicated. Alma was known for what she and others regarded as psychic abilities and supported her family in part by giving tea-leaf readings. Rosen recounts that she read for people from many walks of life, including celebrities such as Marlon Brando. For Bruce, however, her greatest gift was not prediction but the love, compassion, guidance, and sense of joy that continued to influence him long after her death. If You Ever Need Me, I Won’t Be Far Away travels far beyond the story of a mother and son. Rosen reflects upon the breakdown of his 25-year marriage, fatherhood, an abusive relationship with his own father and his eventual decision to forgive, friendship, loss, spirituality, music, politics, economics, and extensive travels around the world. He also examines the intriguing question of fate versus free will—how much of our lives do we actually choose, and how much seems to unfold along a path we could never have anticipated? Join Rob McConnell and Bruce F. Rosen on The 'X' Zone Radio Show for a conversation about family, psychic experiences, love, loss, forgiveness, fate, spirituality, and finding joy after life changes in ways we never expected. Rosen's message ultimately comes back to something remarkably simple: the people we love may leave our physical lives, but what they gave us can remain profoundly present. And behind the title is a beautiful promise from a mother to her son: If You Ever Need Me, I Won’t Be Far Away. Rosen's original conversation with Rob is preserved in The 'X' Zone archives.
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