Monday Morning Mojo

The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin. It puts him in the […]

We never know our destiny until we can look back with 20-20 hindsight and see the long and winding road to this place and time.  It’s hard to tell whom we are going to end up with, in so many ways. When my daughter was in the Welfare Home for Children in New Delhi, she

I was sitting in a plane on the way to Chicago and – horrors! – I put my iPad in the seat pocket in front of me for a moment. Next time I thought of it I was on my way into the city in the back of a cab. Traffic was horrendous. It would

There are over 1,000 new domain suffixes coming to the World Wide Web. Soon the halcyon days of .com,.org, and .edu.will be gone; Instead will be bombarded by .london, .coffee. and .guitars among hundreds of others. I signed onto GoDaddy (my favorite purveyor of domain names) and was greeted by this: I did a search

When my son, Gabe, was a tiny tot I used to take him into the woods and ask him to listen to the tao. That was my way to listen through his ears. I would ask, What do you hear? I never knew what he would say. Birds. Wind. Trees. Here’s a picture of my

I certainly am no expert when it comes to the ancient art of Feng-Shui. I looked up the definition recently and came upon this, “a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy, and whose favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account when siting and

In the late 1980s I decided to become a storyteller. I parlayed my theater experience into one of the oldest art forms on the planet. I learned Beowulf, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Australian Aboriginal DreamTime myths, Native American teaching stories, and I made up my own tales, too. The picture at the right was taken in 1996 at my annual

Sometimes it’s good to let your self-image go and just let others see you as they do, even if it’s not in a flattering light. I purchased a cartoon of myself just to enjoy the experience. There were many reactions, from “Well done! I want one, too!” to “That’s horrible. You’re not going to show

Just over a week ago my family took a trip up to the Montgomery County Circuit Courthouse in Rockville, Maryland. It was the last step in a very long process. Our daughter is now officially ours in the eyes of Uncle Sam and a US citizen. It’s an odd situation. For the last two and

This weekend my son, Gabe, went to Holi, an Indian holiday where everyone is given bags of colored powder that they throw on everyone else.  There is also a ton of music, tablas, chanting, and an outdoor party atmosphere. Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colors and the festival of