Use the following link to read my published article in the Denver Voice about panhandling and homelessness.

Going Home

Use the following link to read my published article from the Denver Voice on one man surviving his struggle with alcohol.

Ben: The Resurrected

Use the following link to read my published article from the Denver Voice about a man’s struggle with alcohol.

The Reverend Friendly

Use the following link to read my published article in the Denver Voice about the death of a public housing resident:

Strange Encounter

As a survival technique, deception is rooted in nature … but as with all behaviors, humans take deception to extremes …

To read the rest of this article, please click on the following link for a pdf of the published work.

Obama Upgrades the Truth

60 Minutes last night: The voter being interviewed in southern Ohio said he believed Barack Obama was a muslim who did not know the words to the Star Spangled Banner. The interviewer asked him if he knew those alleged facts were false. The man said he did not know them to be false. He said it in a way that clearly let you know he was not going to change his mind about them. I say:

“To willfully believe a lie is an act of moral cowardice and unworthy of America.”

Also, I’ve heard Jesus dressed like Osama, was the leader of a subversive sect and did not know the words to the Star Spangled Torah. On that basis I believe Jesus was a muslim! That puts Obama in some good company.

The election of 2008 is here, and the silly season of the superficial has begun.

Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” Did he also

mean, “I don’t think, therefore I am not?”

Think about it!

“A writer needs a certain dumb quality. I often told my students that in a downpour people rush for cover. A writer stands unprotected near a puddle, fascinated by the ripples the drops make, bewitched by the way they bouce on pavement, letting the rain hit her naked head. Both writers – and Zen students – need to step into life fresh and experience it anew. Being smart is beside the point.”

The Great Failure by Natalie Goldberg

“When there is a secret, the dharma can’t

grow direct from the root. It has to twist

itself looking for the sun.”

Natalie Goldberg