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"Pursuing an American Buddhism
(Tricycle Magazine, Spring 2012)" An
interview with Professor Charles Prebish, a leading pioneer in
the academic study of Western Buddhism. |
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"Focusing"
(Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2011)
An interview with philosopher/psychologist
Eugene Gendlin about the origin and nature of Focusing, an innovative
technique for self-transformation he developed out of work with
Carl Rogers. |
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"A
Right to the Dharma" (Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2011)
An interview with
Nichiren Buddhist priest Myokei Caine-Barrett Shonin about the
origins of Nichiren and her experience as a woman of color practicing
Buddhism in America. |
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"Whose Buddhism is Truest? Long-Lost
Scrolls Shed Some Surprising Light" (Tricycle Magazine,
Summer 2011)
How the recent discovery of ancient
Gandharan scrolls settles the question of what the Buddha really
said. This article is the 2011 story highlight in Tricycle
magazine's 20 year retrospective (Fall 2011) and has also
been selected to appear in Penguin's Best Spiritual Writing
2013. |
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"A Great Force of Energy"
(Tricycle Magazine, Summer 2011)
An interview with Atula Shah about Buddhist life in Kenya. |
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"Making
Room for Error" (Brown Alumni Magazine, September/October
2010)
Review of Kathryn Schulz's Being Wrong: Adventures in the
Margin of Error. We all love being right and hate being wrong.
But why? |
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"No
Turning Back" (BuddhaDharma Magazine, Spring 2009)
Seventeen years ago, Christine
Skarda's investigations into the nature of perception drew her
out of the research laboratory and onto the meditation cushion.
She left behind a career as a philosopher and scientific theorist
for a life of Buddhist study and retreat. |
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"Nirvana
Can Wait (Brown Alumni Magazine, July/August 2008)"
Review of Nikolai Grozni's Turtle
Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk--a smart,
funny memoir about coming of age in Dharamsala. |
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"Dharma
Bums (Brown Alumni Magazine, July/August 2008)"
The author of Turtle Feet talks about being a monk, falling
under India's spell, and re-learning how to live in the West. |
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"The
Road Home" (Plenty Magazine online, August 29, 2007)
Ecotourism in Mexico's Sierra Norte gives Zapotec teens a reason
to stay put. |
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"The
Best Medicine" (Stanford Magazine, July/August, 2007)
Atul Gawande works to learn how good doctors improve. |
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"How
to Win a Nobel Prize--Just Smart Enough" (Brown Alumni Magazine,
May/June, 2007)
Research by 2006 Nobel Laureate
Craig Mello '82 has given scientists a way to turn genes easily
on and off. Here's why that might one day save your life. |
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"In
the Land of the Sick (Brown Alumni Magazine, March/April 2007)"
An Interview with Michael Stein
[Q & A]
Professor, novelist, AIDS researcher, and physician Michael Stein's
first work of non-fiction, The Lonely Patient, tries to
understand illness from the patient's point of view. |
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"All is Flux (Brown Alumni Magazine,
Jan/Feb 2007)"
It's not every day you'll see artists throw a masterpiece in
a river. Buddhist monks create a sand mandala on the Brown campus. |
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"Hi,
Neighbor. Have A 'Gansett." (Brown Alumni Magazine, Jan/Feb
2006)
Brown alumnus revives the Narragansett brewery brand. |
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"The Evolution of Ken Miller (Brown
Alumni Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005)"
How a Roman Catholic cell biologist became one of the country's
leading defenders of evolution--and what's at stake. This article
won the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Silver Medal for "Best Feature Article of the Year"
in its annual alumni magazine competition. |
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Cheaters
(Brown Alumni Magazine, May/June 2005)
CEOs cook the numbers. Baseball
players take steroids. Politicians consort with lobbyists. Faced
with a culture of sleaze, what's a nineteen-year-old to do? |
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Want
a New Job? The Shrink Will See You First (The Industry Standard,
October 2, 2000. Reprinted by Monster.com under the title: "A
Logic Test.")
Tech writing candidate finds out that personality really does
go a long way. |
