Blog Update for October 2025

Hello dear readers,

It’s been quite a few past months: graduation, getting my daughter setup for college, and also getting my son ready for middle school, plus lots of interesting side projects, and some work travel. This has been a truly chaotic summer, yet as Ohigan has passed, things are finally calming down.

The chaos of the summer meant that I was queueing up a lot of blog drafts. Like, 20 or more posts that were half done. It was hard to keep up the usual Monday-Thursday schedule because I got impatient and wanted to release some posts sooner than later before they got stale. In the same way, I’ve been making a number of updates over at the other blog too.

Thus, for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been “cleaning house”: finishing blog drafts and posting them in quick succession. If you have been struggling to keep up, don’t worry things will slow down again to their usual pace. If you enjoyed the more frequent content, let me know. I still haven’t quite found a “sweet spot” between post frequency and finding new content to post.

Then again, maybe it’s better not to get locked into a particular schedule, and just post as needed.

Things will start to slow down again here on the blog (unless I get another burst of inspiration), and I have some fun topics coming up.

As always, thank you for reading!

P.S. I see a lot more international readers than past years (Ukraine, China, Italy, Denmark, etc), and I truly appreciate it. The purpose of this blog is (on the one hand) just personal musings, but also I want to share as much information about Buddhism and Asian culture as I can. The more we share the more we understand one another. 🙏

So, thank you everyone who reads. It is inspiring.

P.P.S. Features photo is from Star Trek, and referenced in a previous post. This is me fighting to keep up with my workload. 😅