There are many ways to meditate. You don’t have to sit in a lotus position for hours, chanting “Om.” That works for some, but not for others. More than a year ago, Beliefnet.com producer Lisa Schneider and I created a webpage that will instruct you in fifteen different meditative methods. Most are accompanied by audio…

If you were chattering instead of attending to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s visit to the U.S. last week, I can begin to interpret it for you. (Sounds like he had a cold, unfortunately; one reporter complained that he kept blowing his nose into his microphone.) If any readers in Washington D.C. heard him…

This morning, some hard-hatted men with a backhoe put orange cones down one side of our street. Then they started digging through the asphalt with a jackhammer. I have no idea what their goal was out there, but the noise upset our black cockapoo Chester who, like his chattering mistress, gets fluttery in times of…

While we’re on the subject of writing, author, editor, and sacred treasure Garrison Keillor is an important part of my life. He is one of the highlights of my day, in fact. And I am indebted to Jim Kullander of the Omega Institute for telling me that I could get Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac,” (a short…

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