It’s almost two years now since I ventured back into fiction writing. In high school, I fancied myself a fiction writer. In college...

It has been 52 years since my father passed, three days after his birthday, in 1972. I had just turned 30. His birthday, December 8, was...

We are told as beginning Zen students to notice our thoughts and let them go. As a beginning Zen teacher, I repeated that instruction. It...

The Zen Center of Los Angeles  occupies a special place in the history of American Zen and a very special place in my Zen iconography. It...