A Drop in the Bucket

A Drop in the Bucket

I know it’s hard sometimes. It feels like we do a lot and have virtually no affect on the things we’d like to change. A few years ago, I got a Facebook friend request from a guy with whom I’d gone to grad school. We’d lost touch the moment we...
Beginner’s Mind & The Trickster

Beginner’s Mind & The Trickster

Note: This is a follow-up post inspired from participating in a four-day long meditation retreat at the Great Tree Zen Meditation Center in North Carolina. Part 1 can be found here. The theme of my recent meditation retreat, or sesshin (pronounced...
Can’t Go Over It

Can’t Go Over It

I’ve often said that I basically tell three kinds of stories: camp unrequited love unrequited love at camp If you’re unfamiliar, this is one of my best loved stories, which was featured on NPR. When I was a camp counselor and administrator in the 90s, I...
Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

Often in the culture I grew up in, we first teach children to pray at two times of day, mealtime and bedtime. The mealtime prayer goes something like this: God is great, God is good.Let us thank Him for our food.By His hand we all are fed.Give us Lord our daily...
Stuck

Stuck

A few years back, when I was preparing to turn 40, I set out to conduct a project, counting down the final 40 days until my birthday. You may have read about it or watched my Pecha Kucha presentation here. In summary, the tenets of the project were… to say yes...
I’ve Made a Huge Mistake

I’ve Made a Huge Mistake

One of my favorite TV shows, Arrested Development, dropped a new season on Netflix today. Zany, bizarre, full of imminently weird characters who bounce off each other like pinballs, this show is epic. It’s both binge-worthy and cringe-worthy. Most of all,...