We recently spent a few nights at a hotel in my “hometown”—a concept which first seemed weird to me, because I grew up there but I have absolutely no actual…
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Yesterday I gave a class on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.19. in this verse, Narada Muni tells Vyasadeva that devotees of Krishna, even if they might fall into an unfortunate situation, aren’t “fallen”…
I’m sitting here in the Philadelphia Hare Krishna temple with a belly full of Bengali-style Krishna prasadam, otherwise known as Ye Olde Traditional Hare Krishna Cooking. This morning, my wife…
I used to travel a lot. I was in a band, and we toured the USA all the time. We went to India, went all over Europe. I always dreaded…
Used luggage isn’t like used cars. There are no Certified Pre-Owned Models, only severely beat-up disaster relics that look like they fell out of airplanes, were viciously torn apart by…
Out of uncharacteristic curiosity, I peeked at my wife’s copy of Human Anatomy and Physiology. I found myself in a section on tear ducts. I saw diagrams, descriptive terms, and…
Shelves of fungus growing on a big dead tree look like numerous, convenient footholds to a dumb kid. But only a dumb kid would actually try to climb up them.…
When I was a kid, my favorite cereal wasn’t anything I saw advertised during Saturday morning cartoons. No. I liked Alpen, which in Switzerland is known as muesli and is…
Some years ago I noticed a pain in my outer thigh, as if I had been hit with a “ball peen” hammer. “I feel like I’ve been hit with a…
Cigarettes—once thought to make one look “cool”—now must be packaged with not one, but four varieties of warning labels: • SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema,…