One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths/seals All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All...

Today I heard these two complementary definitions of suffering: The gap between the way things are and the way we want them to be; and...

I received an email yesterday reminding me that my Wix account will renew in August. $220. I'm not employed, haven't written a blog (in...

NOTE: I wrote this almost a month ago but just realized I never published it... There is nothing so satisfying or quietly thrilling as...

Gosh, managing my mind is quite consuming! I'm determined to master it because my life depends on it, but wow, what a challenge. During...

How to embrace the moment of waking each day is much debated and opined on because it can be so fraught with remembrances, regrets and...

Listening to NPR in my hybrid - which I wish was all electric or ideally that cars did not even exist and I was in a solar powered train...

I so hoped you were not permanent, but I am 63 and you are still here. Not only are you extant, but you continue to throb. I am giving...

In the nonstopness I become lost, an automaton in sync with my ticking schedule of engagements. I detect a prideful pleasure as I arrive...

I sit here in the guest room of my father's condo having left him and his lady friend at her place down the hall. Fireworks have begun...

I'll wear flowers in my hair and depart with abandon, ready to melt into the pregnant darkness of death. I don't know how or when, so...

He's precise and professional. The one everyone wants to handle their claims. He climbs roofs, visits police-marked hit and run scenes,...

This is my debonair dad and his lady friend at his 85th birthday 6 years ago. Adie was one of those women who had a thousand friends,...

The days speed by. My wrist heals. A boyfriend appears. Then it's time for a trip to California to visit my dad. The days pass quickly...

My wrist absorbed the fall's impact and promptly cracked. On the pavement near Blue Star three weeks ago today. Not a soul was around...

Mural at South Flores and Furnish Streets, San Antonio. The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and...

The blight in my humble Southtown neighborhood has not been transformed as planned. Instead the discarded brewery has defied four...

So many lonely men. Talking men. "You're prettier than your pictures" men, guitar playing, drinking, overweight, defensive, expansive,...

I wake up to the smell of coffee and rise to find my tall, kind of goofy partner fixing eggs and gluten free toast. He embraces me in the...

The process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality,...