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Yesterday I met with a new group of students, starting a course at Stanford University. And as always, the spirits of Ana and Isa were...

Together with two beautiful people I met when they were college students and I was their teacher, sharing what we're learning about life,...

I grew up with an Irish father who called himself an atheist while also claiming that, like Einstein, the mystery of life and awe,...

♪Reunited, and it feels so good♪ An old song is going through my head. Together again, with Ronnie Harris, hearing how he's transforming...

"I greet each new experience with greater gratitude, with less fear, and with a hunger for more." We huddled together in a circle with...

Featured in Mindful magazine, while others celebrate, I'm filled with confusion. I laugh at myself, recalling a poem: I want to be famous...

In my world, today is doggie day. 11/11, or "one, one, one, one," sounds like the dog's voice in Japanese, "wan, wan, wan, wan." As I...

“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of...

I've been talking with former students to get a better sense of what their lives are like as they navigate their twenties. One told me...

Remembering Anabel Mariko Stenzel's Courageous Life Posted Sep 22, 2014 Four years later: As Stanford students rush around campus...

Hope to see you at a free book talk at USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, October 1, noon, East Asian Seminar...

Grandmother was born on this day 115 years ago. This year I'm celebrating in the neighborhood where I spent the first year of my life...

Filled with a strange feeling 不思議 of “returning home” and life coming full circle, beginning and ending, birth and death, as I find...

Today's New York Times questions whether standardized, intelligence tests should be relied upon so heavily for admission to universities....

Remembering Kenny--he introduced me to Aretha--he just loved her. In high school we needed heroes who could help us to realize the...

My friend Tomohiro Takei posted this message on Facebook. I have translated it in hopes that it provides comfort to us as we face the...