Before I achieved the American Dream, I woke up. Well on the way to a secure retirement, I popped a wheelie and skidded to a halt. I turned off the well-lit traditional career path, onto the unpaved side road of creative self-employment. The American Dream is too small for me. I write personal essays, humorous commentary and dharma talks. My work has been published by The Christian Science Monitor, ShambhalaSun.com/sunspace, Skirt! Magazine, The Best Times, Kansas City Voices Magazine, Alzheimer's Anthology of Unconditional Love and TheAmericanBuddhistCenter.org. Elizabeth Pomada, of the Larsen Pomada Literary Agency in San Francisco, loved my manuscript for a guided journal, At Home in Your Head: Twenty Rooms of Journaling Inspiration. She now represents me and is reviewing my proposal for a collection of spiritual essays, Stumbling Toward the Buddha:  Stories about Tripping over my Principles on the Road to Nirvana. Memberships include the Writers Place - Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Kansas City Writers Group and the Missouri Writers Guild. Once a month I deliver the inspirational message at a Sunday morning meditation service. I'm completing a two-year program with Matthew Flickstein, which guides participants ever deeper into the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. And, as a writer, I have a Favorite Word: redundant.
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