
Natalie Goldberg’s creative writing handbook Writing Down the Bones includes a chapter called “A Tourist in Your Own Town.” Natalie Goldberg is Buddhist, and her book is a Buddhist book. The short chapters drop some wisdom on you and …

Natalie Goldberg’s creative writing handbook Writing Down the Bones includes a chapter called “A Tourist in Your Own Town.” Natalie Goldberg is Buddhist, and her book is a Buddhist book. The short chapters drop some wisdom on you and …

“Oh, I want that,” my friend Erin said. We were heading for a subway stop in Brooklyn, but the universe had deposited on the sidewalk, by a small heap of trash bags, an artfully weathered black trunk.We each …