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Just Signed another Book Contract!

On January 21st, I signed a contract with North Atlantic Books for my third book, called “Turning the Key: How Emotional Struggle becomes Spiritual Liberation”. Turning the Key takes a step-by-step approach to what has become a vexing problem in spiritual circles.  While we are more and more familiar with popular ideas of Enlightenment and spiritual [...]

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On Being Your Own (underpaid and underskilled) Publicist

The last few months a strange thing has happened. I’ve been interviewed, quite a few times in fact. This is an interesting turn of events for a number of reasons. The first is that it’s never happened before, which makes the experience a novel one, to say the least. Second, and perhaps most importantly, I’m being [...]

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The Scalper and the Angel

I went to a show in Denver last weekend, a great event by the band Beats Antique (highly recommended).  I decided that I would wait to get my ticket until I got there, for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. Sara, my girlfriend, had a ticket from a friend, so we only needed one ticket total [...]

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Poem from my Father

My father spent his life in corporate America, and the end of his career coincided with the implosion of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000′s. This poem was inspired by the men and women he saw lose their jobs, and how those actions were justified by his company’s executives.  It’s a heart-felt and powerful [...]

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