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Tomorrow is my final day of owning The Phoenix, my first boutique hotel (really a motel) that I created nearly 40 years ago. Some remarkable lyrics have been penned in this rock ‘n roll hotel and we’ve had some epic parties including my 65th birthday party three months ago captured in this video as an ...
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I’ve decided to reprint it here because he and his whole family (wife, four adult kids and a grandchild) came to my 65th birthday party as did Vivian Quach who
November 5, 2025
Let’s face it: the word “gerrymander” sounds like a cartoon villain anyway. And if Ward Cleaver were around today, he’d be lecturing us about fairness while Wally quietly Googled “how
November 4, 2025
It’s small, but it’s everything. The laughter, the love, the screwups, the comebacks. That night, I realized my dash is still very much in motion — and hopefully getting wider,
November 3, 2025
What a joy it was to be part of the teaching team for our first MEA Silent Retreat with Teddi taking the lead role in curating and week. We have
November 2, 2025
I was in New Mexico recently and got to have lunch with Chip at the great farm-to-table restaurant Los Poblanos. I was updating him on the projects I had created
November 1, 2025
But don’t cue the farewell music just yet. I’m not done. I’m simply changing costumes. The truth is, I’ve never been good at the traditional notion of “retirement.” It’s always
October 31, 2025
A Philosopher is a lover of wisdom, a medicine for the soul. I took a Philosophy course my first quarter of college, not even 18 yet. It changed my life.
October 29, 2025
There were those calf-nursing bottles full of booze that I sold at college football games. My college mates were cheap drunks who lugged beer kegs into the stands and I
October 28, 2025
In a recent article, the New York Times writes, “In many places across the country, ‘the nearby college is … one of the few places left where young people can
October 27, 2025
“For years, I’ve learned more from watching the X Games and surfing documentariesthan from reading dharma (and mindfulness) books”, I told Teddi Dean after the SundaySangha where he offers meditation practice
October 26, 2025
For the first time in my life, I am “in love.” I am literally living from a place of love. I have spent the last decade pulling apart my thoughts
October 25, 2025
What if midlife crises are going extinct? According to a recent Newsweek article summarizing data from more than ten million people in the U.S. and U.K., the classic midlife dip
October 24, 2025
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