I’ve been working on a review for a book called Learning to Be. I’ve posted a posted a blog and a podcast with some of my initial thoughts and impressions, as well as some of my reservations around doing book reviews as a whole. I don’t take a traditional or …
I’ve made two previous attempts at a book review. I think I faltered in both attempts because I’m not sure that I ever offered a real “review” of either book. I shared some thoughts. I pointed out a few things I liked about each of the books, and highlighted some …
I use a lot of quotes in my writing. Some of you are utterly unsurprised bythat admission. I can actually picture some of you feigning shock and gasping in sarcastic disbelief at this very moment, and that’s fair. I don’t blame you. Honestly, I caught myself in that very act …
I spend most of my time in my head. I guess we all do really. In general, we’re blissfully unaware that our existential status is little more than “brain in a box”. But, there’s simply no way around admitting that the disconcertingly gray mass of squishy flesh situated in the …
The kind of humans we want to be depends on the stories we tell and how we tell them – Karen Rinaldo I’ve long been in cahoots with the Unusual Buddha. Jim Martin was the one who encouraged me to start a podcast, and he was also the very first …
The waiting hours speak. They always speak, but they speak slowly and harder than any other because they have something to say, something to teach, something to impart. It just takes a long time to say it. And so we wait… If you’d like to read the transcript of this …
There is no “last word”. Everything is open-ended. There is always something that remains for another “And one more thing”
Writing, for me, really isn’t about writing at all. It’s about summoning the courage to send the cancer of my own cowardice into remission.
Within the jolt of ambiguous paradox and contradiction, we search the uncertainties for something hopeful to share.
It feels like we’re getting nowhere. But, then something changes and comes to life, and that’s the stuff that really matters…
