I'm not a Buddhist, but I try to engage Buddhist principles in my life for the same reason a lot of diets work: It shakes up my viewpoint enough that I have to work hard to decide which choices to make. Then I can see which junk is taking up shelf space. This post over … Continue reading Monkey mind and the zen web editor
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Moby Dick in Manhattan
Back just before my husband and I bought our first house, I was ramping up for a career writing fiction. But then I read a story in the New Yorker about this really talented writer who was living in poverty despite critical praise for his books, because they weren't really selling. In my mid-20s, the whole thing … Continue reading Moby Dick in Manhattan
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