Let’s face it: the word “gerrymander” sounds like a cartoon villain anyway. And if Ward Cleaver were around today, he’d be lecturing us about fairness while Wally quietly Googled “how

November 4, 2025

It’s small, but it’s everything. The laughter, the love, the screwups, the comebacks. That night, I realized my dash is still very much in motion — and hopefully getting wider,

November 3, 2025

What a joy it was to be part of the teaching team for our first MEA Silent Retreat with Teddi taking the lead role in curating and week. We have

November 2, 2025

I was in New Mexico recently and got to have lunch with Chip at the great farm-to-table restaurant Los Poblanos. I was updating him on the projects I had created

November 1, 2025

But don’t cue the farewell music just yet. I’m not done. I’m simply changing costumes. The truth is, I’ve never been good at the traditional notion of “retirement.” It’s always

October 31, 2025

A Philosopher is a lover of wisdom, a medicine for the soul. I took a Philosophy course my first quarter of college, not even 18 yet. It changed my life.

October 29, 2025

There were those calf-nursing bottles full of booze that I sold at college football games. My college mates were cheap drunks who lugged beer kegs into the stands and I

October 28, 2025

In a recent article, the New York Times writes, “In many places across the country, ‘the nearby college is … one of the few places left where young people can

October 27, 2025

“For years, I’ve learned more from watching the X Games and surfing documentariesthan from reading dharma (and mindfulness) books”, I told Teddi Dean after the SundaySangha where he offers meditation practice

October 26, 2025

For the first time in my life, I am “in love.” I am literally living from a place of love.  I have spent the last decade pulling apart my thoughts

October 25, 2025

What if midlife crises are going extinct? According to a recent Newsweek article summarizing data from more than ten million people in the U.S. and U.K., the classic midlife dip

October 24, 2025

I’ve always liked doing hard things. My first hotel had “failure” written all over it — a bankrupt pay-by-the-hour motel in a sketchy neighborhood, run by a guy with zero

October 23, 2025