Continue Reading Twigs and Stones About a 5 minute walk from my house is a small neighborhood park, a refuge for kids, dogs and the rest of…
Continue Reading Spruced up dreams I always know that I am starting to climb out of the emotional or physical hole du jour when sparks of longing…
Continue Reading Until the Flood This is one of the rare mornings where I write directly before I post. I had to give yesterday’s experience, today’s topic,…
Continue Reading The Map is not the Territory I do get a kick out of visiting art exhibits with my octogenarian painter friend – sometimes grumpy, often funny, never boring…
Continue Reading There’s a lot of courage out here “There’s a lot of courage out here,” were the words of Kaia Sand, executive director of Street Roots, when introducing 11 women…
Continue Reading The New University in Exile Consortium A few years back I saw a remarkable documentary about a Jewish musician of Polish descent, Bronislaw Huberman, who changed cultural…
Continue Reading Supernatural Enforcement I’ve been wondering, as is my wont. The topic: oh, something narrowly defined, like the interaction between religion, politics and societal evolution….
Continue Reading In so many words This was the upshot of yesterday’s Brexit episode in Brussels: They don’t leave on 3/29 They potentially leave on 4/12 They potentially leave on 5/22 Perhaps…
Continue Reading Purim Yesterday afternoon was the beginning of spring, and at sundown we saw the beginning of Purim. This Jewish festival is a celebration of…
Continue Reading Good Writing I might be a year older, but I haven’t gone soft quite yet. Proof positive are the odd results of yesterday’s photo…
