Events
Tuesday
December 2, 2025
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Guest Hosting the Uncorking a Story Podcast – Live Recording
This will be a first for me – to be the person asking the questions! This past winter Mike Carlon interviewed me on his podcast, Uncorking a Story, and now the tables are going to be turned as I’ll be interviewing him! Mike’s most recent book, The Waiting Room, is a story that blends a sensitive balance of humor with the weighty and inevitable experience of death, and a healthy reflection on life.
This will be an in-person live recording of Uncorking a Story in front of a Studio Audience at The Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT (Main Branch)
For those who can’t join in person, we are going to webcast it live. You can register for the webcast using this link.
If you can make it in person, RSVP by using this link.
Past Events
September 19, 2025
7PM EST
Dharma and Life: In Fiction and In Reality
Along with Dr. David Kittay, we will discuss the challenges of balancing a dedicated spiritual practice with the demands or ordinary life; and the role of fiction in dharma.
The Tibet House
22 W 15th St, New York, NY 10011
Sunday
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Saturday
4-5:30PM
Sunday
February 2, 2025
4:00 PM
Byrd’s Books
Bethel, CT 06801
INNER PEACE AS A WAY OF LIFE
His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
I will tell the story of my own journey into studying Buddhism, how I came to write books based on Shantideva’s teachings of The Six Perfections, and about the every-day practicality of certain Buddhist principles such as Interdependence, Impermanence, Karma and Equanimity and how understanding and working with these principles can help cultivate peace.Record producer and Ridgefield resident, Gary Lefkowith will introduce the event. He and I will perform some of our original music.
#Buddhism #Compassion #Shantideva