One of Buddha's most interesting and helpful teachings, for me, was about the process of refining gold. He said that gold isn't refined in one step. Instead, first the big non-gold boulders are removed from a mix of metal and dirt. Then the smaller pebbles are removed and then the smaller ones, unti
If you're not growing garlic, you should think about it, and here's why.
My granddaughter is writing her first book. Here's how it starts: "I was born at 10:30 a.m. on June 18th, 2000. That's when the trouble began." If I were writing her book, I'd start with, "Last Friday afternoon my grandmother and I were chased by a swarm of yellowjackets." It started out with great
Gov. Sarah Palin, commander of Alaska, mans the thin snowy line that lies between two hostile socialist countries: Russia and Canada. Weeks after the GOP convention, Palin still maintains that sheer proximity to these powers is evidence of her foreign policy credentials.
A famously bitter election 180 years ago illuminates much of the present race and the persistence of the mythology of the backwoods Westerner riding in to smite the elitists. Obama better watch how this narrative is playing out.
