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I miss my paternal grandparents. They were fantastic. I spent a lot of time with them growing up. Perhaps that’s why I have such a special fondness for the Greatest Generation. My super cool grandfather back in the day: Members of the Greatest Generation were children during The Great Depression. Their college years were interrupted…

In doing research for the Back to the Sack project, I have been running across a wide variety of arguments against banning plastic bags. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article about the dangers of reusable shopping bags. And on Oct 7th, 2008, amid fears of our economic crisis, Savetheplasticbag.com published a press release…

In preparation for an article I’m working on, I e-mailed about 50 female college students and asked them these questions: 1) Are you voting in the 2008 election? Why or why not? 2) What are the issues that matter the most to you in this election? 3) What about this election inspires you the most?…

I don’t have much of a background in economics, having only taken a few survey courses in grad school, but it always seemed apparent to me that the discipline as a whole makes dubious fundamental and unexamined assumptions about human life, and that policy makers all too eagerly set policy based on these assumptions. Thankfully,…

Happy October 13, y’all. My message for the day is no matter how f-cked up the past, it forms the causal basis for our present existence. Which means loathing the past is a very sneaky and peculiar form of Self-Hatred. Still trying to figure this out for myself, but I know it’s true. One of…

When David Nichtern spoke with the IDP earlier this year, he called his lecture It’s The End of The World  As We Know It And I Feel Fine.  Whether he was borrowing an REM title or just trying to scare us all is a matter of some debate, but I was thinking about both the…

Friday night I had the opportunity to attend a talk sponsored by the Omega Institute on “Buddhist Psychology for the West”. The stars of Buddhist psychology were there- Mark Epstein, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Being that I’m studying psych., I was excited to attend. I’m definitely interested in incorporating some aspects of Buddhist thought…

Before the refuge ceremony last Saturday, Acharya Eric Spiegel talked with us about the meaning of refuge vows for lay practitioners. How do we “take refuge” if we’re not shaving our heads and joining a monastery? Stillman covered a lot of that conversation, and the retreat itself, in his post yesterday. But there was something…

Last Thursday I wrote about my anxiety leading up to the ID Project’s “Becoming a Buddhist” retreat, where Acharya Eric Spiegel would administer the Refuge Vow to those of us who felt ready to officially declare our intention to study the Dharma, participate in the Sangha, and accept the Buddha as, well, a role model…

Just a reminder that we are not alone in our quest: “As of October 1, 2008, IKEA will no longer be offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores. The offering will only be reusable. With the introduction of its leadership ‘bag the plastic bag’ program in March 2007, IKEA set a…
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