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,

2009        Best Book Spiritual Category,  Lessons for the Living, London Book Festival,

2009        Top Books of the Year, Lessons for the Living, MyShelf.com

2009        Volunteer of the Year, Hospice Volunteer Association

2009        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.

2007        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

2002        1st place You’ll Like It. Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry

2004         2nd Place, Who’s in Charge of Catching the Bad Guys? Foster City International Writing Contest, Humor

2002        2nd Place, Demcheck Avenue Foster City International Writing Contest, Short Story

2002        3rd Place, Images of New York, Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest

2002        2nd Place, Tidal Movements, American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging   Poetry/Photography

                Contest

2002        1st Place, Chariots of Conscience, Greyhound Lines National Essay Contest

2001        1st Place, A Bean Hollow Goodbye, California State Poetry Society, August 

2001        2nd Place, Images of New York, California State Poetry Society, September