Our visit to Chernobyl
Hal's apple
A 'magickal being' from the artist's Incognito Witch project.
Growing up on Star Island
Looking back on my summers spent at a beloved Unitarian Universalist retreat.
How to know God
An atheist mystic meets the goddess of love.
Questions of comfort
Where do you find comfort in suffering if you don’t believe suffering has a greater purpose?
Beyond comprehension
Visiting Auschwitz, the imagination can only handle so much.
Sankofa Ghana: A spiritual journey home
What did I need to retrieve from a visit to the slave ships' point of departure?
As I ebb toward the end of life
Hear / the ocean's roar and backdrop din / in the death-hollowed shells.
Breaking on through
Language helps us make meaning of what is happening to us, when it isn’t a barrier.
Gone sitting
A few words on going to a Zen retreat.
Light a candle or two this Thanksgivukkah
Where are you in the stories of the two holidays that just happen to coincide this year?
The only time I was called by my first name
When I was in the Army, the Sunday service was the only hour of my week when I could be my true and whole self.