Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. Peace is all around us – in [...]

“You know back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I’ll be damned [...]

You must read and read, and learn to read as writers read, understanding what the writer is doing–just as a would-be stand-up comic (to take a simple example) not only may laugh at the jokes s/he hears but also takes note of how the jokes are constructed, why they work, and how they are delivered. [...]

I think I’m going to start giving out awards for great blog quotes, starting with this one. It’s a classic: For nine months I grew a human being inside my belly and then I pushed it out my vagina and now I?m feeding it with my boob. Biology is so fucking weird.

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that [...]