First of all, I mean no offense to the tens of thousands of people who consider exiled Indian mystic, bestselling author, free love advocate, Rolls-Royce aficionado Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho, now deceased, as their guru. I’m all for gurus, truth be told, and have no problem with…
AFM (A Fucking Magazine) is an arts and literary magazine exploring sexuality and relationships through essays, fiction, poetry, conversations and visual art. They asked me to write about my dating life in New York City. It was really fun to write. Five dates in ten days. READ IT HERE
My first food column for Tricycle Magazine about learning how to make yoghurt.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
An article I wrote for the NY Times about a cross country trip with my teacher: When the Guru Calls Shotgun. Published May 2013. I’ll look for the photo of the back of Rinpoche’s head mentioned in the article and post later.
A personal essay in which I wonder: to eat meat or not to eat meat. Published in Shambhala Sun (now Lion’s Roar). Here is the PDF (in a google folder). Recently I was invited to spend the weekend at a family dairy farm in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia.…