by Larry Thomas (This is the second in a series of blog posts on lovingkindness meditation. Check out Larry’s first post here.) Expressing Lovingkindness to Oneself We begin metta…
One person I have come to know since living in NYC is an Egyptian-American businessman I met who had started coming to my concerts in…
As a self-identified tree hugger, one of my favorite hymns is How Great Thou Art!: O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,…
The Washington Square Church… the name still stirs in me a feeling of liberation, hope, radicalism and passion. Though I was never a member, several…
*Note: The names of Lithuanians who shared their stories with me have been changed in this blog to respect their confidentiality. Welcome home! I went…
It was almost exactly seven years ago that I moved into my very first apartment in the near-south side Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport. I was…
Maybe I’m a protest/rally freak, and I don’t think that I’m alone. Wherever there are people practicing their democratic right to assemble and their revolutionary…
I met my wife in 1980. She and I worked for the same company in different offices; she in North Carolina and I in Westchester….
Dad: Are you having a good time? Me: Yeah, I’m okay. Dad: Would you rather be somewhere else? Me: I mean, I guess I would….
Every year, as Mother’s Day approaches, I take time to reflect on the many ways in which I have been mothered. My mother passed away…
