Category Ordinary Things

By the time I arrived in Koyasan at the beginning of September, I already knew what this month’s essay would be about. Believing. I had actually started thinking about it the night before I left for Japan. I was sitting…

I wanted to make success the subject of this month’s “Ordinary Things” — my little series, currently being read by, what, ten people? For now, I am choosing to find this intimate rather than statistically concerning. I have been thinking…