When I know it is going to be a while before we have tickets to a hockey game, I try to attend the Columbus Blue Jackets practices.
Yesterday I drove in to watch them practice. Toward the end, when most of the players had left the ice and most of the spectators had [...]

This morning, I was reading about tonglen in the book Comfortable With Uncertainty by Pema Chodron.
Chodron writes:
“We begin the practice by taking on the suffering of a person we know to be hurting and who we wish to help. For instance, if you know of a child who is being hurt, you breathe in [...]

This past February I went to my first professional hockey game. My daughter A had talked about going to one, and then lo and behold our college alumni association had an outing at a Blue Jackets game.
I didn’t know any of the rules of hockey. I didn’t know any of the [...]

I have a confession to make. This budding Buddhist, this purposeful pacifist, this magnanimous mommy has a secret.
I love hockey. I’ve met my shadow and she is a hockey player.
My Team is the Columbus Blue Jackets. They are a new team, having been in the National Hockey League for only [...]