4/27/24 – Taos, New Mexico After we left Big Bend and headed north, things started going south. When we crossed into New Mexico, the temperature dropped. A lot. The WiFi here is great, said the kind woman at the campground reception. It wasn’t. By a long shot. The campsite we’d reserved – the beautiful … Read More »
Serendipity, the Brain and the Heart: Episode 2 in my Account of Traveling West in a Van while Writing a Book about Psychedelics and Elderhood
This trip has been rich with natural beauty and wonder – 360 degree sunsets and a ring-side seat for the totality of the solar eclipse. But there has also been plenty of serendipity – things that caught my eye at auspicious moments, like this miniature antler and piece of hand-tooled flint. So it felt … Read More »
Many Journeys – Episode 1 in my Account of Traveling West in a Van while Writing a Book about Psychedelics and Elderhood
4/13/23 – Fort Davis, TX My partner Jim and I are traveling out West in a luxe camper van he spent three years lovingly building out. My condition for joining him was that I have the time and conditions to work on my own magnum opus – a book about psychedelics in older life. So … Read More »
Boomers, Psychedelics and Hallucinogens? What’s in a Title?
I recently published an article about Oregon’s pioneering psilocybin services program and its appeal to older adults, in the online magazine Next Avenue. As a writer, I consider addressing misunderstandings and stigma about consciousness-expanding drugs to be a big part of my job. That’s why I appreciate the opportunity to publish in this very mainstream … Read More »
Entering Elderhood – A New Psychedelic Ceremonial Rite of Passage
The generation that came of age in the 60s and 70s is now aging into our 60s and 70s. And young at heart as we boomers may feel, we are sorely ill-prepared for the realities of aging and dying. But now, with remarkably auspicious timing, the psychedelic drugs of our youth are making a comeback. … Read More »