Rusty Ring

This Sunday, 29 October, is National Hermit Day. (I have no idea which nation declared this. The day commemorates an Irish saint, so I...

I've loved this song for years but only recently searched out the video, which adds incisive context to the lyrics. It's a detai...

This is pure genius, but bear with me, because it won't seem like it just from the description. In Garfield Minus Garfield , Iris...

An English, Irish, and Scottish steelworker are sitting on the Forth Bridge, lunchboxes in their laps. "Stike 'n' kidney...

San Francisco is the capital of Western Zen. The sangha there – the Western one; Asian residents were already practicing for over a centu...

Well, it's happened. The outcome was exactly as I guessed, though it doesn't bring me any satisfaction. As a Canadian, I'm ...

Know any Scrooge-sans? You know, Zenners who pout all December because it's Christmas and they're not Christian. If so, yo...

I tried to read this book when I was in high school, at the instigation of teachers who swore I was the living tulku of Henry David Thor...