Sometimes you wake up with it and sometimes you can feel it building inside of your head – that throbbing, dull ache inside of your head that makes it difficult to concentrate on anything else.  You’ve got a headache. Medical practitioners usually classify headaches into two categories.  The first category,  primary headaches, are those headaches that are not caused by …

“Where does all the time go?”  This was the question at the top of my mind when I pulled out my journal and noticed that the last entry was almost a year ago.  An entire YEAR had gone by.  How the hell did THAT happen? … and I guess more importantly, where the hell was I? I’ve kept a journal …

I’m halfway through an interesting book titled “Footprints in the Snow,”  the autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist monk who grew up during World War II and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  It’s a story of how he struggled to keep his inner peace while the world around him was losing theirs. One of the chapters I found interesting was when he …

Hurricane Gustav really made this a stressful week.  Since I live in the Houston, TX area, there’s the whole “should I leave or should I stay” decision. Then, whether you decide to go or whether you decide to stay, there’s the preparations that have to be made getting your home and property secured. And all the time you’re doing this, …

This is a short, 5 minute animated video on how to meditate.  Now, I know that there are many people that believe that meditation is anti-Christian or an “instrument of the Devil” but that’s not true. Meditation is simply a way to reduce the “mental noise” created by all of the thoughts, worries, and frustrations that are part of our …