“I just abused a really nice Philippine AT&T tech guy who was trying to help me online,” I told a friend yesterday.“Why?” she asked.“He was talking too fast, I couldn't understand what he was saying and he kept putting me on hold. I couldn’t take it any more and I...

I’ve noticed that among a number of devoted truth seekers, there is a common confusion that our joy and good feelings are spiritual while our anger and bad feelings are not. If I were a spiritual person, we might think, I'd forgive and forget. I wouldn’t get stuck in...

I was raised as an athlete, independent, courageous and able to achieve things that other people couldn’t do, like dance gracefully on the tips of my toes and hold the choreography of twenty or more ballets in my head at one time. Over time, I trained myself to watch...

I’m in a car with a new friend, Ed, on our way to Dodger Stadium to get the first dose of the Covid vaccine. I’m in a good mood. It’s 4:00 PM, Biden was inaugurated today and I can feel hope starting to break down my armor – until we take our place at the end of a two...

One of my greatest mentors is the late Stephen Levine who is best known for his pioneering work on death and dying. When many of my friends were battling the AIDS virus back in the late eighties, facing certain death, I attended a number of Mr. Levine’s workshops. I...