New Blog SMOLDER forthcoming My debut poetry collection, SMOLDER, won Ex Ophidia Press's Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest, judged by Felicia Zamora, and will be The Problem of Happiness... My memoir manuscript was one of ten finalists for the 2025 AWP Award Series Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Want to be awestruck? Visit my list of recommended Books That Fill Me with Awe on Shepherd.com. Founder Ben Fox hopes to make it Remembering Hozan Alan Senauke In late December of 2024, Lion's Roar published this tribute I wrote to the late abbot of the Berkeley Zen A Planet on Fire KQED's Erin Baldassari wrote this probing piece in November 2023 about the intersection of climate change and wildfire. She came Fire Monks don't stop It’s been ten years since Fire Monks was published! With Tassajara facing another wildfire threat just last month and the Willow Fire & Next Generation Fire Monks The Willow Fire burning in the Los Padres National Forest is a long day hike away from Tassajara. The good My late father's ballot Read my Washington Post piece about my family's deliberations over what to do with my father's Michigan mail-in ballot when Patience, Playfulness, & the Practice of Care A Q&A with fire monk Mako Voelkel It’s been nearly a dozen years since Mako Voelkel stood on the Overlook How can you keep your heart open and mind clear during a pandemic? Near the end of March 2020, ten days into the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order, I reached out to Fire Monk 1 2 3 … 7 Next »
