Landing in a hospital bed for a week because of a failing digestive organ got me to thinking a lot about my dietary habits. This is not new for me, though. For the last several years I have yo-yo’d between dropping the junk food in favor of more healthy fare, and bounced right back to eating cheese puffs for breakfast. Continue reading “Who’s in Charge Here Anyway?” »

I stepped away from Buddhism for about a year because I had felt really put off and a bit freaked out by the practice of mindfulness and the concept of not-self. What I found difficult was how much Buddhist teachers advised us to let go of the thinking process, iterated how many problems that thinking creates. My ego rebelled, and I ran. Continue reading “Making Way for My Muse” »