Remembering Dad
Kind of a heavy post today. These thoughts, the poem below, have been banging around in my skull for several days now. Nearly feels like the noise them make gets in the way of trying to write about...
View ArticleAccidental Vegetarian
Several people have heard the story of how I “accidentally” became a vegetarian and I’ve talked with a few people about why I’m vegan. During the Loving-Kindness sesshin in April I had a lot of time to...
View ArticleA Vegan Way
It was in 2006, after being a vegetarian for a little over 5 years, I really decided to just switch to a vegan diet. Primarily I was making a final attempt to get my high cholesterol down. I also had...
View ArticleWriting About the Weight Loss
I’ve gotten OK with writing about quite a lot of stuff. I’ve now even managed to write three things to be put into zine-type publications and have the work be personal, from my own experience. Writing...
View ArticleBody
It was one of those realizations during zazen that felt like it kind of thumped into me. Why writing about, talking about the weight loss is so difficult. I feel shame for having gained all that weight...
View ArticleThis Body
I was a skinny person who became obese. I was underweight at birth, throughout my early childhood, and was pretty thin until the last year of college when the combination of traumatic breakdown,...
View ArticleThe lastest delusion
Feeling fat… yep, that’s me these days. I have been feeling fat, frumpy and kind of uneven all over. Maybe it was getting on the scale at the gym the other day – in the evening – and finding it weighed...
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Health Matters
I’ve gained some weight over the past four busy, stressful, joyful, hard years. The “why” is easy, I know myself and it isn’t hard to figure out. Stress makes me crave carbohydrates, preferably in the...
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Chocolate Poetry and Busy Life
CK is down in Mountain View and has been for over a week. These long trips are hard. Right now with everything going on with Mom, it has felt really tiring. Work is very busy, although I’ve come to...
View ArticleMy Picture in a Zine
My article came out today in the Sangha newsletter, Ink on the Cat. It seemed a little strange to me to see myself there, printed, in black & white, looking out from something I could hold in my...
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