In or around 1975 i was living outside Gainesville, Florida. I had been studying yoga out of the book “Integral Hatha Yoga” by Swami Satchidananda. He was the funny little…
Swami Satchidananda’s Lesson For Me
The Hippie T.A. and The Nuclear Mathematician
In 1974 I was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. I was working as a teaching assistant and the first semester of the…
How to Build a Chickee and Talk to Cockroaches
Characters in and around the swamps and rivers of north central Florida were as plentiful as paw-paws in a paw-paw patch. On Sundays I would often ride my bicycle out…
The Greatest Poetry Reading of All Time
On Saturday evening of April 19, 1975 three of the greatest Beat poets – Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure came to the campus of the University of Florida…