I’ve always been a humanities nerd who thinks science is way cool too.

In 1967, the year I turned fifteen, three things happened that shaped my adult life: the first season of “Star Trek aired on TV; the Summer of Love exploded from the Haight Ashbury to blow the minds of me and my contemporaries; and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was published.

This last enchanted me so much that a decade later I wound up in a medieval studies Ph.D. program at UC Berkeley. 

In 1979 I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study medieval art history in Germany. While there I began meditating in earnest and discovered that there are levels of truth and beauty far beyond the intellectual.

I returned to Berkeley, finished my Ph.D. and gladly bailed out of academia, keeping busy with not-for-profit work, my spiritual practices, and end-of-life care for aging relatives.

Now I am reinventing myself yet again, this time as a writer of essays and novels that help us make sense of, and find meaning in, the earth-shaking events of today.