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At the Shimogamo shrine today in Kyoto, Japan, thousands are gathering to celebrate Hinamatsuri, the Doll Festival.  They have come together to gaze ...

Finding the child within

January 5th, 2010

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, but the second one is up to you and nobody else.  ~Everett Bonner When ...

Why you should be an underdog

December 18th, 2009

Tonight is the last night of Hanukkah.  It is on this night so very long ago that the Maccabees celebrated the miracle ...

You can be a Hanukkah Story

December 11th, 2009

It was evening and it was morning, one day...        ~Genesis 1:5 Hanukkah begins at sundown tonight, by Jewish tradition when you ...

Imagine If

December 8th, 2009

There's something of a let-down whenever I finish writing a poem, as if I have to leave what was an exciting adventure ...

Cutting the Strings

November 12th, 2009

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries ...

A Welcoming Nature

October 23rd, 2009

Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as ...

Salem's Bad Rye and Eye of Newt

October 12th, 2009

It was a cold, hard, bitter Winter in 1692.  Many of the tiny lonesome towns along the Eastern seaboard had spent the ...
“How would you like to get thousands of followers…..” Today, like many other days on Twitter, I glanced over my new followers, and ...

Embracing the Stranger

September 11th, 2009

The day was September 15, 2001, just four days after we held each other in front of our televisions, watching our combined ...