They all lay around on the quilts and blankets , the grandma-squared afghans, the soiled sheets, as the music from the stage blared so loudly…

The Buddha made it simple to understand, like those yellow-colored, thick paperbacks stacked on the bottom shelf, in all the sections of bookstores, Suffering for…

When my friend Kari moved to Paris to study mime (she was already a street mime in San Francisco, where we met) with Jean Louis…

She remembered hearing about “lies of omission.” What a funny phrase, a phrase no doubt left over from the early life of going to catechism…

One time we were all invited to see this very avant-garde video artist who was presenting his work for one night only at Cal Tech…

At my age, going through decades and decades of personal journals I've scribbled in, collected and arranged chronologically on a book case i had specially…

“My fear is simple. It’s my hair.” “Your hair?” Mary put down her coffee mug to concentrate. She leaned across the little table, squinting. “You…

If ever there was material for a solid country-western hit, today’s prompt is that material! It practically sings itself, backed by a strong rhythmic structure…

One time, in the seventies, my sister dropped two quaaludes before boarding a red eye flight from SFO to Toronto. In those days there were…

Jana puts down a teapot in the center of her perfectly round table. I move my chair closer and sit up straighter. Jana has a…

In the Fall of 1969, the first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog came out. It’s a fantastic thing and it deserves to be written…

My brilliance has turned into folly. I brilliantly supposed that my sons and daughter would be interested to read what I wrote, so I emailed…