What gives us the capacity to tolerate love? Which carries with it the excruciating self-knowledge that the other will one day be gone. And that nothing we could do could save the other from experiencing the ten thousand sorrows of…

We are all strangers - even some who I thought were my friends. I've always been uber-sensitive, what some call a highly sensitive person (HSS). Being a high sensation seeker (HSS) too lends itself to sometimes having my foot pressed…

In the standing-room-only theater, during the premiere of our documentary Rebels with a Cause, Kenji (my partner in life and filmmaking) and I slouched in our seats, holding hands. When the audience laughed at things we hoped others would find…

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 of the world affects another on the exact opposite continent. What we do matters because…

Thank you, partner. Always such a pleasure to read and write with you! (fiction) Marla watched Jenna charge down the sidewalk as if this were her neighborhood. Confident, with a mission. And that was only for coffee. The balance had…

I’ve met more than my fair share of people who are impressed by what I do for a living. Chief in these ranks are the young men who came of age playing Modern Warfare and Black Ops. They’d developed excellent…

What is freedom, anyway? I guess it depends on the situation in which you're in, the one you want to free of. A few years ago at the beginning of a yoga class the teacher asked us to close our…

When times like these happen, I think back to my past, to when I grew up in San Francisco near the Haight Ashbury and Golden Gate Park when everything seemed new and magical. Our neighborhood morphed from a family neighborhood…

There are all kinds of freedom. Freedom to vote, to try new things, to be yourself, whether that means marrying who you want, studying what you want, working the kind of job you want or whatever. Not everyone has this…

There are all kinds of freedom. Freedom to vote, to try new things, to be yourself, whether that means marrying who you want, studying what you want, working the kind of job you want or whatever. Not everyone has this…

Extraordinary beauty and extreme intelligence offer a certain kind of freedom. Many beautiful women have written about the doors that were opened to them solely on their looks. They were aware of the tipped scale that ran their lives. I…