Paulo Coelho's bestseller The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream is one of those books that has been sitting on our shelf for years. His book The Pilgrimage is up there too, along with The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz. I hadn't read any of them. I...
I was catching up my backlog of Internet reading and writing on this morning of the Academy Awards when a message from a Twitter followee caught my attention: I just don't understand all the Oscars coverage. It's quite pathetic. For some reason, I was instantly...
I had been wanting to watch Pan's Labyrinth for many months, prepared to love it. I already love The Devil's Backbone, the 2001 ghost story by Guillermo del Toro, and Pan's Labyrinth is a kind of companion piece to that picture. Unfortunately, this movie is not as...
Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field...
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Reading Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God: Creative Mythology at home on the sofa.