Awards
2011
First Place Award-Winner in the “Spirituality: Inspirational” category of the 2011 International Book Awards
2010
- Best Buddhist Writing of 2010 An excerpt from Lessons for the Living has been selected
2009
- London Book Festival Grand Prize Winner,Lessons for the Living,
- Best Book Spiritual Category, Lessons for the Living, London Book Festival,
- Top Books of the Year, Lessons for the Living, MyShelf.com
- Volunteer of the Year, Hospice Volunteer Association
- Top Books of the Year, Lessons for the Living, Cyrus Webb Conversations Book Club,
2007
- This I Believe NPR/PBS national radio program. One of six essayists chosen to read in San Francisco.
- 1st Place, Choices, a play in three acts. 2007 Festival of New Work at the Oxford International Institute for Documentary and Drama in Conflict Transformation
2005
- 1st Place, Living in the Elephant’s Footprint, Non-Fiction, 16th Annual Jack London Writing Conference
2004
- $10,000 Winner, Fixing? Helping? Or Serving? John Templeton World-Wide Essay Competition
- 2nd Place, Who’s in Charge of Catching the Bad Guys? Foster City International Writing Contest, Humor
2002
- 1st place You’ll Like It. Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry
- 1st place You’ll Like It. Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry
- 2nd Place, Demcheck Avenue Foster City International Writing Contest, Short Story
- 3rd Place, Images of New York, Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest
- 2nd Place, Tidal Movements, American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging Poetry/Photography Contest
- 1st Place, Chariots of Conscience, Greyhound Lines National Essay Contest
2001
- 1st Place, A Bean Hollow Goodbye, California State Poetry Society, August
- 2nd Place, Images of New York, California State Poetry Society, September