I hate to be gender-normative (or even breed-ist) and yet… At the end of the day, my chocolate lab Belle was always the perfect lady. She was the straight-A student (and class president) who was kind to all her friends and still found time to read to the blind. Vlad is…well… A lovable bad boy m...

New Meditation of the Month is HERE I admit that I was working from a very short list of suspects. Even so, since I didn’t know exactly when the thieving began, I was truly at a loss…and in more ways than one. It might have been relatively recent. Or it could have dated back to June 2011 when t...

Unwittingly, I find myself part of an ever-shifting love triangle. Allow me to explain. When Vlad and I arrive on the baseball field each morning, two dogs find us immediately. It’s entirely because I’m the guy with four spiked squeaky balls in my backpack, ie. I’m “The Dog Dad with th...

It was a quiet turning point in my life. And oddly it happened in the lobby of the NYU Dentistry building with an unknown receptionist. My dentist––and now my pharmacy––when I show up for an appointment always begin with this startling question: “What’s your birthdate?” I guess it makes you sli...

This guided meditation is 7 minutes with an extra 13 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs. You can stream it here or download in the link below. To DownloadCLICK HERE