The First Awakening?

by | May 16, 2026 | Memoir

My need for silence was intense. As a kid, I could be loud and boisterous. I started acting and performing when I was 14. So this seemingly sudden call, demand, and irresistible pull to silence in my late twenties seemed a little out of character. But, like many...

Meeting Adya

by | May 15, 2026 | Memoir

I guess I had assumed that I would be Sri Mahayogi’s disciple forever. I certainly knew that my commitment to awakening was enduring. But life had other plans. Shortly after I moved to California, I took a job at a software company that offered yoga classes. The yoga...

The Love Story I Wasn’t Looking For

by | Feb 7, 2026 | Memoir

If you’d asked my 20-year-old self, she would have told you that happy marriages didn’t really exist, or at the very least, were quite rare. Most of the marriages I had seen were two people eroded by compromise over many years, each person being less than who they...

Sunny California

by | Nov 15, 2025 | Memoir

I began having visions of moving to California in 1998, and I mean literal visions – I would see myself in places in California I had never been to before and couldn’t possibly have known what they looked like. I knew down to my toes that I was moving there at some...

The Sufi and Christian Paths of Love

by | Nov 15, 2025 | Memoir

Chicago was wearing on me. The weather, crime, violence, and inequities… I was no longer thriving there, and I was getting extremely restless to move. But my business with Chicago wasn’t done yet, and the people there still had more to teach me. It turned out that the...

The Final Frontier

by | Sep 21, 2025 | Memoir

My transition out of Rennie life back into conventional society was messy. Still a ship without navigation or a rudder, I cruised through different jobs; I helped write and produce a play, acted in a few shows, tried to design costumes, worked in a health food store...