(Written yesterday afternoon.) In an hour or so from the moment I sit here writing these words, the new California gay marriage law will tak...

I did not know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rosenman">Leonard Rosenman , who died earlier this year at the age of 83. I did...

(cross-posted with Accidental Dharma ) Thanks to my wife, Ellie, who put this book into my hands--with the words "Accidental Dharma....

It was a trivial incident, really. Insignificant in the grand scale of things. I had just left the front door of our house, about ten o...

I dreamt last night that my mother told me she had asked my father for a divorce. An improbable scenario. First, both my parents died more...

Thanks to Robin over at the Dharma Bums for the invitation to recall a moment of epiphany--one of those moments when the sign is clear that...

I was gratified to hear from my fellow-malingerers yesterday in the "Comments" file. I did actually see the Sopranos' finale-...

Sometimes when I think I'm listening to my body, I'm really listening to what my brain is telling me about my body--which may not n...

... this time of riding through Europe on the red drop-handlebar bicycle I bought for myself when I was fourteen years old. Moving along fa...

I promised the day before yesterday that I would do some personal accountability on the subject that has been predominant on these pages for...

So. No God. And yet a yearning, for me, to somehow "make sense of it all"--for a bigger context in which to place this tiny mani...

Okay. God. As I mentioned yesterday, God has been on my mind, and I've been meaning to write about him/her/it for a few days now. Wha...

Remember that little prick in the bathtub, all those years ago? Your cousin's? Donald's? It was all wet and shiny, and he popped i...

For a long time I have resisted calling myself a Buddhist, even though I have been following a Buddhist meditation practice for more than te...