Closing your eyes and feeling the warmth on your face and hearing the crackle in your ear from the fireplace. Going out in the dark beneath a silent clear sky cut by a full moon after a snowfall, before there are any footprints. Carefully lowering yourself into a steamy bubble bath. Taking the first sip […]

Life is not infinite. It is not perfect. Life is not all-or-nothing. Life is a precarious balancing act between wants and needs and safety and adventure. We have all heard that time is money, but it is so much more than that. Time can also be used or substituted for safety. Time can be spent

The world can be so perfect-ish. The problems of the day, of the year, of the millennium could just melt away. We have complete control over this (basically). If or when we all start living the way that we know would make us happy it will make us happy! If and when we start and

If a child were to tell you that they were terrified of a monster in their closet, you would likely explain that there is no monster, therefore nothing to worry about. If an adult said the same thing most people would assume that the adult has a mental illness and would then try to direct

This is one of numerous little lies that we tell ourselves over and over again throughout our lives. It makes sense for a small child to fall victim to this mirage. It makes much less sense for us grown-ups. And, as with essentially everything else in life, this is completely false and utterly true at

This is essentially the thesis of all my work. The greatest realization that I want to share with the world. The one truth that freed me more than nearly any other. We fundamentally do not understand happiness. We mistakenly believe happiness is like winning the lottery or is related to the particulars of who and

The closet is not just a hiding place for those battling sexual identity issues, it is an enormous equal opportunity host for virtually all of us. We all have something that we are closeted about. Maybe we are “out” to a few safe friends or a small circle in those in our life, but many

The concept of enlightenment is misunderstood. Maybe it is different for each person. Maybe it is different for each time, for each place. For me and now enlightenment is joyous surrender. Enlightenment is not mysterious or magical. It is not something that cannot be communicated. It is simply, at least for me and for now

First off, a little primer on Sudoku for those unfamiliar with it. Sudoku is a fun, simple, yet challenging game….much like life. There is a very symmetric nine by nine grid that contains numbers one through nine. Each row, each column, and each of the nine smaller squares comprising the larger square contain the numbers

We all think that our experiences and beliefs and fears and wants are normal. We secretly think of ourselves as “the” yardstick to measure everything off of. If you went to college and don’t smoke and don’t like heights, then you think that that is true for everyone, and everyone’s friends! This has been true