I didn’t make New Year’s resolutions. That’s because, well, they sort of made me, bubbling to the surface early in the morning of January 1. And they quickly coalesced into a catchy slogan: More zazen. [...]
I have to confess: I don’t like Walmart. I don’t like the layout or the crowds. I don’t like the sub-subsistence wage they pay employees. I don’t like the havoc they wreak on local businesses [...]
Lately I’ve been drawing lines in the sand. This is not like me. Being a dialogue guy, I tend to hear news reports and imagine the complexity of an issue, the not-unreasonableness of all sides, [...]
I changed my morning routine recently, and it made me wonder if this is how polarization happens. For years, my wife and I have set our alarm to one particular radio station. In between the [...]