Magical DropsTomorrow I turn 43. To prepare for the big day and my birthday week, I caught up on homework, wrote, cleaned my house and washed and folded…Feb 25Feb 25
Empty Seats, Full HeartsLast week we went to dinner with my brother-in-law, niece, and nephew. It was for my sister-in-law’s birthday, her first one since she…Dec 17, 202410Dec 17, 202410
Cross-Pollination on Shakedown StreetI’ve been thinking about the melting pot that is our own lives, and how our impermanence and everyone else’s impermanence is precisely what…Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024
The Other SideThis morning I saw a man with gray hair pushing an umbrella stroller stacked with junk, wearing mismatched clothes and talking to himself…May 3, 2024May 3, 2024
Make This BeautifulEach night feels like Groundhog Day. The same fatigue. The same insurmountable housework, kid obligations, my work, a vicious cycle of…Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024
Thank YouIt’s November, and for many people in the United States, that means a month of thankfulness with the Thanksgiving holiday approaching…Nov 14, 2023Nov 14, 2023
Buddhist PalestinianWhat to say during these trying times? It feels like the world is going insane. U.S. politics is a mess. Ukraine. Israel. Gaza.Oct 19, 2023Oct 19, 2023
Smoke in MirrorsYou have to go to the real world. You can go back to your regular life, and forget any of this ever happened. Or you can know the truth…Aug 16, 2023Aug 16, 2023
Gone Fishin’My kids are away at summer camp, all of them, for the first and only time ever. Next year my oldest will age out, and I have big plans to…Jul 24, 2023Jul 24, 2023
