I spent many years writing long-form journalism—trying to understand the mind, and the world around it, through reporting, interviews, and lived experience.
These days, most of my writing lives on Home Base—shorter, more immediate reflections paired with guided practice.
The older articles are still here. The newer work is happening there.
Articles
I recently wrote about Dynamic Care — a balanced way to think about how we can use practice to help ourselves and each other.
How might this work in real life?
The following practices were submitted by all of you. I’ve organized them into four quadrants...
June 19, 2020
Dynamic Care in Action
Back in my twenties, I had this idea of living life like an adventure story. My guiding principle was to say yes to everything.
So I did. I said yes to every party and every weird opportunity, from installing neon signs in San Francisco to studying sperm whales in the Caribbean to digging for peyote in the desert...
June 1, 2022
Let’s Help Regulate Each Other
It was a hilarious experience, at least for me. As always when I try to discuss ADHD, my own ADHD immediately exploded in bizarre sympathetic resonance, so that I felt comically unable to articulate what I imagined was important about the subject. So that happened, along with a few moments of panic when I realized my short-term memory had already cleared its (tiny) cache...
March 4, 2025
Empowering Neurodivergence: Harnessing Strengths for Success
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1974 Hans Burgschmidt was sixteen years old, living in the Canadian Prairies, working in a photography studio darkroom, elbow-deep in chemicals all day long. “Is this what life is about?” he asked a high school friend. “You need to meditate,” was the reply. Not long after, Hans attended a lecture at the local library, where a man in a suit spoke about the scientific benefits of relaxation...
February 16, 2014
Enlightenment’s Evil Twin
This primer is about the broad stages of spiritual experience that can happen to committed long-term meditators, with an emphasis on the challenges. Knowing about these – having a context – can help people move through them more quickly.
The terrains are loosely based on what is known as the “Progress of Insight” in Theravada Buddhism, a series of stages and...
April 24, 2015
Spiritual Terrains and Challenges
“You want to cultivate the crackling intensity of the ninja,” Daniel Ingram told me. Ingram made a living as an emergency doctor, but his real passion was teaching advanced meditation. It was day one of a 30-day solitary retreat, and this was my first meditation instruction...
December 20, 2012
The Anxiety of the Long-Distance Meditator
Not three metres from where I’m standing on the starboard side of the sailboat, six very large female sperm whales are doing something few humans have ever witnessed. The captain of our 40-foot cutter is Dalhousie University biologist Hal Whitehead, one of the pre-eminent experts on sperm whales. It’s mid-afternoon...
June 22, 2012
Whales Are People Too
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