How can something as simple – and as silly – as being amused be a spiritual technique? 

Yet the ability to find some humor in whatever you’re dealing with is one of the most important skills to have in your…

Isn't it fun to be at a moment when so many of us are looking at the world ending and not ending and continuing and re-turning? Exciting! A good correction to the narrow (though scary) "fiscal cliff" frame. Wealth…

If you'd like to hear my conversations with three wonderful Bay Area DJs and learn more about (and win tickets to!) my upcoming holiday concert, tune in:

Tues. 11/27/12, 5:20 p.m. 
Bajaba on JazzLine with Afrikahn Jahmal Dayvs
KKUP Cupertino…

Upon waking the other day, I immediately recalled a long, multi-segment dream I’d been having for much of the night. A good friend, whom I’ll call Ed, had been dashing around the dream in various mix-ups, as if in a…

Bacteria R Us

“Bacteria make us sick. Do they also keep us alive?” is the subhead under “Germs Are Us,” by Michael Specter in the October 22 issue of The New Yorker. About five years ago, DNA-sequencing technology was harnessed…

Acknowledge Your Unique Diabetes Journey

You didn’t ask to go, and yet you are on a journey: your diabetes journey. Whether you’re a new diabetic – wondering what the heck you can eat and grappling with the strange paraphernalia of…