Beginner's Mind

  The beginning of a new year is like opening a fresh page in a new journal — all possibilities lie ahead. Yet too often I burden myself imm...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), a time to bring attention to a problem that far too often remains hidden and unacknowle...

Last winter, I attended a silent Zen retreat up in the mountains. At one point in our tightly regulated schedule, the retreat staff didn’t h...

There are hazards to being a writer of fiction. Sometimes one gets trapped between reality and make-believe, entirely unawares. About a year...

To live with no regrets is something that sounds wonderful - but impossible. And yet I have found recently in small ways I have been able to...

Being a writer means confronting on a daily basis the demon of ego. I waver continually between "I am so bad that I shouldn't even ...

On Tuesday night, I was on the edge of town at 9 p.m. pumping gas at a station. I heard a voice from the street call out, "Hey, mister ...