My work with Casa de Salud has offered me a unique perspective on the St. Louis healthcare system. Through stories of my time with Casa, we will explore the barriers to healthcare that many St….
A letter is…. A humanly imperfect cartography of thoughts and experience Made not for self-exploration (Though insight often emerges from the act) But for sending on– Inviting, “Imagine yourself here!”
My friends, the Burkempers, are vacationing at Palm Coast, and Liz sent me this photograph.
On Robert Neer, Napalm: An American Biography (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) 1. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12…
Felicia Langer, An Age of Stone (Quartet Books, 1988) Trans. Isaac Cohen It is my simple belief that whatever happens to [the Palestinians], their future and their fate in the last decades of the twentieth…
For this week’s Share the Wealth, I invite you to learn from my friend Jason Makansi this Thursday! Left Bank Books welcomes author and independent consultant Jason Makansi, who will sign and discuss his new…
I met the Buddha on the road And little said she and I “The Diamond Sutra is matchless Reading it makes me cry” “You just reminded me of Mary Oliver Her percipience makes me cry”
From time to time I’ve learned how some readers of The Book of Mev recognize themselves in Mev Puleo’s words, say, from her letters and journals. They remind of the French novelist Marcel Proust, who…
So many of us inter-are with Doctors Neil Munjal and Neeta Shenai!
I was delighted to read this review from the Post-Dispatch about my former Maryville student Thao Truong and her husband Yun Vu’s restaurant, VietNam Style. I’m hoping to bring my Thich Nhat Hanh class soon…