My first food column for Tricycle Magazine about learning how to make yoghurt.
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One of my food columns from the Fall 2011 issue of Tricycle Magazine, in which Elise de Grande teaches me to be tolerant of the intolerant.
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A Review for Pollstar of the Bad Seeds’ Wild God Show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Arena The incomparable Nick Cave is a gothic punk rock preacher man, one who has somehow survived life’s brutality and glory and come out the other side with greater wisdom, grace, depth, candor and compassion. On…
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As a young girl, I spent many dark nights reading The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1974), a double set of Grimm’s fairy tales illustrated by Maurice Sendak. I don’t believe my father read them before he gave them to me. If he had, he might…
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An interview with… me! I met author and meditation instructor Susan Kaiser-Greenland when she visited the Middle Way School a few years ago with Justin Kelley of Tergar Schools. The two of them were embarking on a similar journey, looking for ways to systematize a Buddhist education for children in…
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I love the term “Ghostwriter”. I want to be a ghost. Maybe I am a ghost! I’m definitely a writer. I didn’t ghostwrite Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s books and memoir, but I typed them. And as I typed, we talked, and as we talked I picked up the cadence of his…
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I was asked by RebindAi to write the life story of the Buddha, which will be published with commentary by Deepak Chopra. It was one of the best writing experiences I’ve had, trying to walk in the footsteps of Siddhartha and really think about what he experienced.
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My latest column at Buddhistdoor Global is about eating the Buddha’s head. Is it right?: “Right” is a pretty terrible translation of the Sanskrit word samma, which could be considered more like being in harmony. Saying something is harmonious sounds less judgy than saying it’s right, and when tweens think they are…
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I wrote this story while a graduate student at Hunter College’s MFA program. With support from my professors Peter Carey and Column McCann, and my fellow students, I feel it got close to what I wanted. It won first prize in the Glimmer Train Magazine fiction open, which was very…
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I am delighted to have this opportunity to write about my experience as a dharma educator for children, school founder, and curriculum developer for Buddhistdoor Global (BDG). This first article addresses the issue of dharma as religion versus dharma as the way things are and how that can impact the…