I have just finished reading Jeff Wilson’s Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture. Wilson is an associate professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). It’s a thought provoking read and the first of its kind scholarly analysis of the rise of the…

I am pleased to share that Oprah.com has published an excerpt from The Awakened Introvert. It’s on the “Shift Your Life” section of Oprah that provides interactive ways to make changes in your life. They took an excerpt from the energy chapter and provide an interactive energy chart that you can use to chart your…

I recently read Abigail Thomas’s new book, What Comes Next and How to Like It. It’s a poetic reflection on a lifelong friendship and life itself. You can read it, as I did, on the span of an airplane ride. After the death of her husband, Thomas has chosen to live a life without romantic…

If I had been born in 1933 instead of 1963, I would have largely missed the demands of the Information Age. If I had come of age as a writer thirty years ago in 1985, there would have been no Internet and I would still be creating manuscripts on a typewriter. I am not a Luddite.…

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