It's Matthieu Ricard: A little smile plays at the edges of his mouth, his eyes look into the middle distance, serene, detached.... We confuse happiness with pleasurable experiences, with sensations, elation, the new car, the …
It seemed like a good idea to get out of the house once this weekend, but the snow has been piling up like mad. I decided to set out on foot and took my camera. I didn't get very far -- skis or snowshoes would have helped -- …
Today, I was struggling to drag out the gigantic, three-paneled whiteboard contraption in my classroom when the handle came off, and I fell on the floor right in front of fifty students. The class was Constitutional Law, and the …
A front page obituary for Spalding Gray in today's NYT. He deserves it. (When there's a front page obituary, it makes the inside page obituaries seem hidden away. There's one today on the inside for Paul Winfield , w…