Last week, I was pretty stressed about the US election, but I’m feeling pretty good today. I guess I’m having a pretty common experience. I could look on the dark side and start lamenting the way almost 48% of the population voted (I haven’t checked the numbers, lately, so I …
I was just making some tweaks to this website and I thought about all of the incarnations it has gone through. When I learned that websites existed in 1994, my first thought was, “I must have one.” I started my first one in 1995. It had a background that I …
I’m sitting on the second floor of a coffee shop with a nice view overlooking the street. Across the way are a home decor store and a tea shop and just below are the hustle-bustle of pedestrians. There’s a Starbucks next door, of course. Sitting at the table behind me …
Hello World. I’m struggling to begin here because nothing I write seems good enough, which is exactly the reason I’m writing this. I’m a perfectionist. I hate the word “perfectionist” because it implies that there is some relationship between the sufferer and the results of their suffering. As if the …
This is a guest post written by Adam Valerio. Adam is a scholar who researches the intersection between science and Asian religions. I once heard a Zen Buddhist master say, “You can have everything that you want in life, as long as you don’t care what form it takes.” For …
