Agnes Varda made a documentary, The Gleaners, about people in France who pick the fields after harvest and other people who scour the dumpsters of…

"We're going to California!" I yelled as I walked through the front door at home. The kids cheered. "Yay, where are we going?" "To visit…

She looked at the photo of the re-painted, re-refurbished three-story house, and the memories, the darkness, practically the smells of that decade came back so…

I tried to prepare for it. Reading self-help articles online about difficult conversations. But nothing could help me get ready for this. The words create…

Well, I suppose it would be possible to shut and lock the door against miracles. But why? Being able to do that seems like it…

I was first introduced to Richard Brautigan by a Marine Corps Lance Corporal. We were stationed in Scotland, Edzell, Scotland. He had been to Vietnam…

I was first introduced to Richard Brautigan by a Marine Corps Lance Corporal. We were stationed in Scotland, Edzell, Scotland. He had been to Vietnam…

Some say we are all one. Buddhist philosophy, among others, instructs us that we are indeed each other, and that an action on one side…

I think everything that happens or exists is due to a collection of circumstances. A series of things happen that together cause something else to…

I finally made it to the yoga retreat last Friday afternoon. Right up to the day before--when my manager at work told the team that…

Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1950's, in a middle-class, creative Jewish family, and with both parents working , I was mostly raised by…

So much I still do not understand. I've been alive for almost 74 years. I'm naturally an introspective person, and I write mostly to understand…