As the story goes, Buddha was wandering the countryside with his disciples. He would stop occasionally and give a lecture, and when he...

“If someone tells you they understand Zen, then the chances are they don’t know Zen.” – Alan Watts It might be easier to start by...

A constant question most writers get is where do story ideas come from? Once, as a joke, I said there was a magazine called “Ideas” that...

When you first start writing, it usually takes a while to understand that, in the fictional world you’re creating, you are God. You can...

Let’s face it, the “tame” deer in Japan are really thugs. It’s cute when they come up to you and bow, but that behavior is designed to...

For anyone who knows me, anything about the Emperor would probably mean Japan. In this case, however, I’m talking about the Emperor of...