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Things I associate with other things: The MN State Fair and mini-donuts Bare feet and the beach The smell of alcohol and hospitals ...

( You can also read a more coherent and informative explanation of Shivarathri by my friend and colleague Anju.) It’s Shivarathri...

  *You can read this as “A Hindu-American’s Thanksgiving” at The Huffington Post Religion blog . Please leave a comment if you like (or don’...

Versions of this essay be viewed at The Washington Post On Faith blog,  and The HASC site , where you can also learn more about ShaktiSeva ...

The thing I always wonder about Nazi Germany is this: how did it happen? Did all the Germans just go insane? How does an entire culture get ...

Dear People-Who-Are-Afraid-of-Islam- And -Think-Your-Fear-Should-Affect-Other-People's-Freedoms, You have a right to your feelin...

*Here is another one from the archives, circa 2000. I am not this, consumed by flame; I am not that, washed in water; I am not that w...

A few weeks ago I had a post titled The Vodou that I do , about my struggle to be, and to be honest about being, a priestess of Vodou. It ca...

It’s Holi! Holi is India’s answer to Carnival, if you can imagine Carnival including a nation-wide water- and colored-powder-fight. It’s b...

Recently, a friend at a party asked me what, exactly, it is that I do as a Vodou priestess. I was silent for a moment, then launched into...

I’m hanging out in the big dome room of my farm, listening to Joy Division and talking to a new Twitter friend about his day. He thanked me ...