It was a real honor to participate in this project. The Tang Museum at Skidmore hosted a conference of all of the contributors to contemplate a special collection of Tibetan art and to write articles that linked the exhibition to teaching practices. I was the only one who wrote about…
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…
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…
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…
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.