Sue Oldham, Judy Box and I signed up for an inter-island sailing trip in Hawaii for about a week. We had loads of fun, did some snorkeling (no wet suits needed, thank goodness), learned how to feed frozen green peas to outrageously colored fish (who would have thought?), learned a little bit about sailing. I... Learn More

I was visiting my friend, Bill Boothe, who was living in Tampa, FL at the time. While he was at work, I went for a stroll along a cement walkway on the edge of Tampa Bay. It was one of those warm-sun/cool-wind days, and I was feeling peaceful and alive at the same time. Every... Learn More

There are at least two sides to being a spiritual warrior. In the previous post, I mentioned that engaging with Reality is a hallmark of the spiritual warrior. There is another hallmark … trusting your heart, even when it doesn't seem practical or make sense. When I was 50 years old, I sold everything but... Learn More

An enlightened Warden of a medium-high security prison near Bastrop, Texas, through the auspices of the psychology department, authorized More To Life Weekends at the federal institution. In fact, we did many of those weekends there, back in the '80s. In one of those weekends, there was a tall dude, whose musculature was so defined,... Learn More

Dan Millman wrote a book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which I read in the very early '80s. That book made a big impact on me, and I declared from then on to be a Warrior – a peaceful one. My proclamation was easy, the actual practice was demoralizing. I had lots of 'exceptions' to... Learn More

Saturday morning, I got up, I dressed, I got in the car, I drove to the hotel – my mouth still bled in the cracks on and around my lips, my nose was stuffy and runny – I felt sick. And I was tired of looking like a clown whose mouth-makeup hadn't been scrubbed properly.... Learn More