Try This With a Banana: My Goodbye — in 2006

If it seems like I’ve stopped posting here — it’s been long enough that the WordPress default font for writing … More

Accepting Your Beauty: Body Image and Social Media

Rachael Tree Talker wrote this post on her Talk2TheTrees blog a few days ago about body image, self-worth, and personal, … More

Here I combine a few excerpts from my interview with Brian Froud into a slightly longer but still rather short—and … More

It has been a great year in the blogosphere, easily setting a record for highest amount of traffic since RayHemachandra.com … More

Today I’m posting an extended excerpt from a fascinating interview I conducted with the late Rabbi David Zeller, so I’ll … More

At the base of High Falls in DuPont State Forest today, the mist rising from the base of the falls … More

I loved talking to the late Wayne Dyer. Firstly, the breadth and depth of thought across disciplines he brought to a … More

In September I drove to Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi, to spend a day at a retreat with Thich … More

Ray Hemachandra: Marianne, are there times when moral imperatives call for war? Must certain evils — evils that peace may … More

I recently did a recorded presentation for an online class at Western Carolina University–Biltmore Campus for students working to become … More