There’s no getting around bad stuff happening. I don’t mean to bum anyone out; I’m just rephrasing the Buddha’s first noble truth to remind myself not to take shit personally. And while I’m quoting, I might as well throw in a bit of Shakespeare who had Hamlet say, “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking [...]
Category Archives: Writing
Finding What You Weren’t Looking For: Where Research Leads the Writer
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
There’s only one column left of Hera’s temple in Crotone, Italy. To get to it, you walk through a park that has a fraction of the olive trees that once grew in the thick forest that covered the area. The forest is gone. The temple is gone, except for this column and other [...]
The Amazing But True Story of What I Would Be Writing About If I Were Writing
Monday, November 3, 2008
I haven’t done a lot of writing on this website. And yet I’m very grateful to anyone who takes the time to check it out. One problem I have with a blog is that I prefer to use fiction, narrative, to say what I am compelled to say.
The books that [...]
Writing While My Ego Eats Ice Cream
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
For over thirty-six years, I’ve dabbled in Zen Buddhism. For over forty-six years, since fourth grade when I wrote a Christmas poem about the Snow Fairy for my class, I’ve been a writer. These paths do not always converge.
Egolessness is a beautiful thing. Buddha taught that all suffering comes from the ego’s desire to feel [...]