Ruining It for Everyone Else

  This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend my first Zen retreat. I say, opportunity, because when you're a full-time mom g...

Even from when I was very young, I always felt I had a sort of instinctual spirituality. My zealously religious mother drilled into me th...

I do not pretend to be a zen master or teacher. I use the term "enlightnment" here as general movement toward a more natural ex...

So, watching Wall-E with my kids I had a few thoughts. In the movie it's apparent that some of the robots (the more highly evolved one...

Sitting Upright No Matter What Whatever appears Sit upright in it, Neither hoping You can endure, Nor fearing you can't. Just ...

After a childhood of Sunday school and feeling dissatisfied with "reality" as it had been taught to me, all it took was Richard...