After skidding on a patch of ice in the winter of 2016, I totaled my Cobalt. That week, I purchased a 2012 Kia Soul for $8,000. It was...

“You could search the whole world over and never find anyone as deserving of your love as yourself.” -Buddha Sharon Salzberg, a respected...

My father often spoke of death as a homecoming and was as prepared as he could be for his transition in 2007. Doctors had suggested...

More and more technologies are emerging that allow us to measure and monitor our physiological states. What we can measure, we can...

He told me he was a hit man for the yakuza. Said he had served six years in the pen. Then he found Jesus. He waved the Bible in one hand,...

How much knowledge can a man acquire in a lifetime? If he could read every book written- an impossibility- his knowledge would still be...

The Pacific Ocean is a magical place where I would often lose myself. The sea was where leviathans and tentacled monsters lurked. On a...

It started with a sore throat. Didn't think much about it. I was vaccinated. I thought I was coming down with a mild cold until I lost...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule. NO is made by many types of cells throughout the body. Nitric oxide is naturally released in...

I was holed up in a capsule hotel nursing an injury. The pain in my right knee was unbearable. It felt like pieces of glass cutting the...

My father’s health was deteriorating. He was crippled by Type 2 diabetes. He walked with a cane. Two toes on one of his feet had been...

Meditation is to mind as exercise is to body. Meditation is defined as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory...

Job crafting is a proactive approach to redesigning what we do at work and how we do it (Berg et al., 2007). Job crafting is a mindset...

"I don't have time." This is the most common excuse I hear from beginners struggling to establish and maintain a meditation practice. I...

There are many benefits to meditation: Enhanced cognitive functioning Improved memory Improved attention Reduced stress and anxiety...

In my 19 years of education, I was never explicitly taught how to maintain equanimity; but I did learn that an equilateral triangle was...

2021. A new year. In December, I will turn 50. To celebrate the gift of 50 years of life, I started the 50/50 Project. The aim is to...

Sit to meditate long enough and you'll soon notice the mind has wandered. This is common. It is at this point a teacher will instruct...

This precious moment is all there is. Along comes another and another and another. Let's take partial inventory of what we have in this...