Meditation is like walking backwards: Thoughts come, and you catch them as they come. Sensations pass in and out of your awareness. As...

It is a sad and tragic truth that we all have to journey for an entire lifetime before finding the most fundamental solutions to our...

It has become so difficult to get into a state of mind for writing lately, that I often find that the only things I can write about are...

Why is it so hard to write these days? For the first couple of months after October 7, I managed to put something out. After that, I...

Over the ages, we have learned to live alongside one another even though we have different points of view. But how do we do this?...

It’s so hard to write these days. It’s not that there isn’t anything to write about… On the contrary, there is plenty. But it’s so hard...

Why do couples fall apart? Why do lovers leave each other? Why do people get divorced? I mean… let’s be realistic: They break up for any...

Should I even be writing? God knows. I’m so tired. I feel like the last meaningful word was wasted miles and miles behind me, now sitting...

Isn’t it tempting to believe that Buddha was never angry? It doesn’t really show up in his stories, or on any of his statues. It’s very...

I apologize that this blog post is arriving on the late side. I was sitting on the plane to Israel and writing this out, when it became...

I love how the sun and the earth are, in so many ways, like lovers. The sun penetrates the earth with light, and the earth provides the...

I’m a competitive person. I’ve pushed myself to be “better than” at a lot of things throughout my life - from school, to music, to...

I think we are all familiar with the Rage Stage, aren’t we? Something goes wrong between you and another person, and you’re mad. You’re...

Not long ago, I performed with a group of musicians whose country is facing an existential threat. It seems like that applies to so many...

I sat in a hospital lobby in Israel once, in my early twenties, and passed the time in what I suppose was my big fetish at that age: I...

I’m sitting here and looking out the window, thinking about the last three years. What has changed since the start of the COVID pandemic,...

Roughly a year ago, I attended an online gathering of all the workers at my preschool and Jewish Community Center, where they had a...

Life has such a lovely way of testing us exactly where we need to be tested. This might seem at first like some cosmic switchboard, that...

When I was nineteen years old, I participated in a peace gathering between Jews and Palestinians that was held in southern Israel. We...

“We come into this world alone, and we leave this world - alone.” This quote is so prolific in our culture that I cannot even give credit...