Every Day Is Opposite Day! (No it Isn’t!)
2015-06-14 – We seem to be living a never-ending Opposite Day—you know: the time when you try to say or do the opposite of everything I say or do. I […]
Social Pressure: Churches and Gangs
2015-06-11 – It seems that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is being tagged with advice from his own book. Back in 1995 he wrote a chapter called “The Restoration of […]
Revenge Is Not Enough
2015-06-09 – The saga of the Duggar family and their wayward son comes at the intersection of at least two of my cultural blind spots. I don’t follow reality TV […]
Air Travel Humanidity
2015-06-07 – When did air travel get so awful? Yes, I know. It’s been a gradual process. I loved to fly back in the 1970s. We used to go to […]
FIFA FO FUM
2015-06-04 – I love soccer. But I love it as a dad of a soccer player. I didn’t grow up with soccer. I didn’t really even know how soccer was […]
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
2015-06-02 — When you lose an elderly parent, as I did yesterday, you don’t know how to feel. The mother you last talked to may have been gone a long […]
Eating in a Strange Place
2015-05-31 – My son Cal left yesterday for a summer internship at Axelle Editions in New York. This will be a great opportunity for him as a young artist to learn […]
I Keep Falling Asleep and Waking Up
2015-05-28 – I keep falling asleep and waking up. Yeah, I know you do that too, but I’m not talking about the normal day-night cycle. I’m talking about cycles that […]
The Rhythm of Prayer
2015-05-26 – My friend Natalie celebrated her bat mitzvah this week. I wasn’t there but I read her reflection on a prayer I once said: Elohai Nitzor. This is a […]
And the Cockroach Shall Inherit
2015-05-24 – Those who think that a god created the world for human beings have a lot of explaining to do. I’m particularly thinking of the millennia of suffering this […]
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