Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most beautiful of them all? The evil queen in Snow White craved constant reassurance of her perfection and could not bear it when the mirror named someone even more lovely. Though this fairy tale was recorded by the Brothers Grimm...

There are days when I feel like I’m drowning in it all—the endless scroll of news, the pressure to stay connected, the constant stimulation that comes with wanting to show up for those needing care. As someone who lives at the intersection of being Black, queer, and...

My Buddhism and my career have always been intertwined. I became a Buddhist sitting in front of a bank of police radios in the newsroom of the old Montreal Star, where I was a junior police reporter. I opened a book on Buddhism I had happened to buy and felt an...

When the doctor sent my mother home to die, I went with her even though I didn’t know what I was supposed to do. In those days, hospice offered little support beyond a weekly nurse visit. I moved in, kept my mother clean, took care of her cat, made smoothies for her...

My mountain of a dog, Monty, is bouncing around the foyer, pawing at the door, whinnying and whining like a racehorse straining at the bit. We’ve just adopted this big guy—ninety-five pounds of pure strength and sweetness—and he’s eager to muscle his way past my legs...

When Larry Ward died suddenly on August 19, Buddhism in America lost a unique and powerful voice.  “His dharma name was True Great Sound, and he was indeed a master of sound,” said dharma teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo after his death. “He soothed, uplifted, and gave...