Essays

God and Golden Spoon

Last week I had one of my best prayer times of this whole year—and I wasn’t even praying. God told me to take Amber and…

100 Crashing Jetliners

The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program—Week Eleven  Chapter Nine: One Hundred Crashing Jetliners “One Hundred Jetliners Crash, Killing 26,500.” That’s the context that Mr.…

My Buddhist goal for the summer

I just finished Phil Jackson’s basketball memoir, Eleven Rings: the Soul of Success, and in it he espoused the Buddhist philosophy of learning to live…

Amber Rocks!

You know how we parents are…can’t stop bragging…we even do it in formats like our blogs 🙂 Here is a pic of Amber and me…

Down with the glorified self

Working in Los Angeles County can be hazardous to one’s health. I’m not talking about the high-speed freeways or the frantic pace of life, but…