A HIGHER LOYALTY: Truth, Lies, and Leadership James Comey [Flatiron Books, 312 pages] In my twenties, I asked a spiritual...
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Writer/artist/musician still teaching preschool in SF bay area, Max Reif is the author of TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN, a book of stories published by The Mindful Word; a book of poetry called Journey from Here to HERE; and a CD of songs, "The Wake-Up Man," dedicated to his Spiritual Guide, Meher Baba. He has been writing for The Mindful Word for around 5 years.
The amazing thing, said many of the people interviewed in the documentary movie Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of...
A foundling As usual, coming home from work at 6:30 p.m. a few days ago, I parked in the sunken...
With Trump, It’s Come to This When the President’s mind is a maelstrom, an abyss, a sinkhole into which he...
A 1950 Chevy I remember our 1950 Chevrolet: how the leather seats smelled, and how our skin stuck to them...
Every Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday in America (except for the state of Arizona), I try to...
Coffee and me Oddly, I don’t remember my first cup of coffee. After watching Dad drink the stuff all through...
NEWS OF THE WORLD Paulette Jiles [William Morrow Paperbacks, 240 pages] News of the World, the book I discovered via...
LOVE WARRIOR: A Memoir Glennon Doyle [Flatiron Books, 304 pages] Glennon Doyle is a popular motivational speaker, partly because of...
THE TRUE AMERICAN: Murder and Mercy in Texas Anand Giridharadas [W.W. Norton & Company, 336 pages] I saw Anand Giridharadas...
THE IDIOT Elif Batuman [Penguin Press, 432 pages] The word “quirky” could’ve been coined to describe this 423-page novel by...
“The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” –...
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]It could be a little poem in the Tao Te Ching:...
Many readers will remember the sickening feeling that began to sink in while the results of the 2016 American presidential...
[Note: If you missed Part 1 and want to start there, here’s the link: GOING DOWN UNDER AND COMING BACK...
Sometimes a guy needs a break I sort of limped across the finish line of this past school year in...
A surprise destination I visited the Republic of Fiji basically because I’m not as spry as I once was. I...
The author recently visited Suva, the capital of Fiji, as well as the Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane....
Too much abundance? On the Fourth of July, I helped with food distribution at White Pony Express (WPE), the food-rescue-and-delivery...
A Process of Birth Our house is filling up with paintings! Where do they come from? From inside me, of...
When I got to Costco for warm-up this morning, I seemed off my game, and never dreamed it would be...
The challenge of compelling fiction My wife, Barbara, works from home, and because I’m out in the world, I procure...
Musical beginnings When I was a boy, my idea of great music and literature was South Pacific and the other...
Queens Vision, 1983 Somewhere in the bowels of Queens with my crazy second wife, driving to meet her Grandpa. The...
