The Uncarved Block

Some weeks ago, I was at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( SFMoMA ) with friends. Among other things we stumbled into a vide...

Shakespeare famously wrote in As You Like It , "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players..." So famo...

I often find lessons in the Dhamma (better known to Americans as the Sanskrit word pronounced “ Dharma ”) while driving. The other day I f...

"Shower" by Kevin Dooley is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . When I am in my shower, I try to be aware of gratitude. I love showe...

I wonder if caterpillars know that they will become butterflies. When a caterpillar on a leaf sees a butterfly flying around, does...

I have heard it said that to name something is to destroy it. Once it is named, the thing that is right in front of you is then just an e...

Riding home on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) last night I felt so lonely. Everyone on the train was somewhere else. Most people had s...

The 4th of July occurred (inconveniently) on a Tuesday this year (2023). This got me thinking about US holidays which are fixed to a certa...

My sister Erica Sigal and I are proud to announce the creation of an endowment at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in memory of ...

Here in my part of the United States we experienced the switch to Daylight Savings Time last night. That is to say, we transitioned from “...