Ecstatic Adventures of the Exuberant Bodhisattva

If you are going shopping on Black Friday, my first advice to you is do not get killed at Walmart. Now that that's out of the way, I wi...

I just attended the funeral of a lovely man named John Smith.  Despite his extremely common name, John was an extraordinary person who I m...

Someone just wrote an article called, “ An End to Self-Care .”  The author claims that our society is way too concerned with avoiding bur...

One day a year, I leave the house without taking a shit.  It's the worst day of the year.  I hate that day.  This week, I've had t...

Today is my mother's birthday. It is also the birthday of the first boyfriend I ever had in high school. The third boyfriend I ever...

Readers, I’m sorry.  My mind has gone dull and I’m totally ashamed.  I blame it on Lady Gaga.  A week or so ago, she announced to the world...

When I was twenty years old, I wrote a list in a purple notebook.  At the time, I was coming to the end of my first year living and workin...