After reading this in-depth rundown with insightful commentary on the tragedy near Sedona, I was reminded of an essay I wrote regarding spirituality and destruction.

 In this  post on Making Light, Teresa Nielsen Hayden comments on the use by the guru, James Ray, of language that invok… Read full post »

"It's so weird that you heat your whole house," my wife said one winter. She's Japanese, and when we first got married, in the United States, we got a lot of mileage out of the "I can't believe you people actually do this" conversations.

Recently, we moved to Japan and the… Read full post »