Lives of the Saints

These stories frequently border on the improbable, if not the outright fantastic; I have been lifelong a writer of stories that leave behind the mundane, ordinary, "realistic" world of our everyday experience, and I believe that such stories can pull our minds out of the ruts of culturally conditioned thinking and propel us into new ways of understanding and perhaps even of being.

The common theme, I believe, is the idea of sainthood.

But a saint, to me, is the same as a bodhisattva or a medi...