Essential Reading

Selections from my writings
that sum up what I’m all about.

Featured
Spirituality and Mental Health
Spirit, Life Stories
Spirituality and Mental Health
Spirit, Life Stories

I know the “return to the world” phase when I see it.

Spirit, Life Stories
The Medium
Culture, Technology
The Medium
Culture, Technology

Relationships are not entertainment.

Culture, Technology
What I Find Radical
Householding, Culture
What I Find Radical
Householding, Culture

A peaceful hot tub in every backyard.

Householding, Culture
Naturalness
Buddhism, Spirit
Naturalness
Buddhism, Spirit

Zen is not control. Common mistake.

Buddhism, Spirit
Does Astrology Describe “Signs” or “Causes”?
Astrology, Culture
Does Astrology Describe “Signs” or “Causes”?
Astrology, Culture

We can agree all day long about what astrology shows without agreeing why.

Astrology, Culture
Stepping My Game Up
Householding
Stepping My Game Up
Householding

That’s what householders do with every step.

Householding
Morality Arises From Mortality
Culture
Morality Arises From Mortality
Culture

Where death goes, there’s beauty and goodness.

Culture
How to Break Up With Thinking and Just Be Friends
Spirit
How to Break Up With Thinking and Just Be Friends
Spirit

You can hurt your back lifting a box wrong, and you can hurt your brain thinking wrong.

Spirit
How I Met the Buddha on a Jewish Meditation Retreat
Buddhism, Jewishness
How I Met the Buddha on a Jewish Meditation Retreat
Buddhism, Jewishness

My religious war with myself is over.

Buddhism, Jewishness
Holy Land
Jewishness
Holy Land
Jewishness

The land where we live has to be Holy Land.

Jewishness

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Other Writing Series

Buddhist Jew Trilogy

The story of my many conversions into who I am.

How to Build a Fire

Step-by-step instructions to repair our instincts.

Spiritual Spectrum Dialogues

My last attempt to bridge an epistemological gap.

Torah Posting

Spicy Biblical commentary from the rabbi’s husband.