In Practice

Facebook inspirational memes and yoga blogs will lure you into thinking you should be chasing your dreams or you're not fully alive. I get it. I have a habit of quitting it all to run head-over-heels after things that will make me happy, or at least away from things...

A friend came over to my place the other day and was complimenting me on some decorating touches I’d added, then said it still looked unlived in, though I’ve been here going on three years. As I looked at my mostly bare white walls in my living room, my bedroom...

Before I left L.A. in 2007, I kept visiting psychics at magic shops around town, asking whether I should move to Austin, Texas or Paris, France. I remember one at the Cauldron in Silver Lake told me it was a toss-up, that I might very well meet a cowboy with horses in...