THE BIGSMALL is available |
Dear Everyone,Please bear with me while I tell you a dark, sad tale. There was once a guy, me, who wrote a book called The Bigsmall. Over seven years he endured around a thousand rejections, literal...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:15:00 GMT |
HIATUS or MY LEGACY |
Beginning at 5pm this very day, I commence my hiatus. I've saved a few greenbacks, plus will send early for my tax return, which should give me a straight shot of hiatus through the end of June ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:10:00 GMT |
Career Day |
When I was in 8th grade we had to go to the library to take a career test. A series of questions were written out and we were given options A through F for answers that we filled in on a scantro...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:47:00 GMT |
Rattlesnakes at Deer Park Monastery |
The other day some monks were carrying a long beam up the path to the stupa when they came across a gigantic rattlesnake in the path. They stopped, offered a lotus, and the monk in front apologi...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:17:00 GMT |
Soh |
I work as a temp at Penguin Books. I used to work at one of their children's publishers, Philomel. Every day, a 40-or-so-year-old man named Soh, from Burma, would come around the floor and...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:41:00 GMT |
Hallucinogenic Trumpet Flowers |
There's a Zen monastery in California I like to frequent. One day the Vietnamese American abbot, who was 27, took me aside and pointed out a short plant with big, lush green leaves and l...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:16:00 GMT |
