Dear Friends,  My new poetry collection, Joy In the Journey: A Book of Dharma, is now AVAILABLE on Amazon (both ebook and paperback) and Barnes & Noble (ebook only). Huzzah! O frabjous day. Calloo callay! It’s $16.99 for the paperback edition, and $9.99 for ebook....

About six months ago I came face to face with my own mortality, but didn't even know it. Yet, as you can see, it wasn't time. But then I read an interview with Suzanne Kelly in The Sun (August 2024 issue) about green burial and mortality. Wow! Talk about timing. She...

THE TRAVELER'S EPIPHANY I pack a rucksackwith nuts, fruit, somebottles of water, and set out on myjourney. I know mydestination and do notneed a map: I have the sun, moon,the stars to navigateby. But I have been walking for threedays and still have notreached my goal....

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT WRITERS AND READERS, SPEAKERS AND LISTENERS What’s big and red and eats rocks? Why, a big red rock-eater. A thunder god went out to ride his favorite filly. “I’m Thor,” he cried. The horse replied, “you forgot your thaddle, thilly.”Marvin leaned up...

Here is my first post on my website. I needed a lot of help to do this. Thanks, everyone. I’m really supposed to be taking a break from my writing as I’m a little tired after finishing my dharma book and getting it into the hands of the publisher. But these just...

I have had no formal training as a writer, but have had the good fortune to have readers, most of whom are not themselves writers, but like to read, to give me feedback. And that has parlayed itself in my luck to have published in a variety of journals around the...