WHEN THE POCKET CAMERA ASKS if your subject blinked, it’s time to turn off ALL the machines. *
Category: Living
Each moment is different. Here are some of mine.
Not Good For The Jews, Or Anyone Really
THE WORLD IS SO SMALL these days that you never know who might be reading you — including the families of those aboard the Gaza flotilla. If that’s the case, then please let me apologize in advance. I am very…
Pithyism #6,001
IN THE 10,000-YEAR-WIDE BUBBLE that is civilized collective consciousness, every death is the end of an era.
Pithyism #2=1
OF THOSE THINGS BETTER UNDERSTOOD by one sex than the other: Women, the dynamics of community; men, the dynamics of solitude.
Why I’m Not A Rabbi
IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT I was once studying to become a rabbi, then you probably haven’t talked to me much during the last 10 years. As detailed elsewhere, I returned to Judaism in 1997 after a whirlwind tour of…
Companionable Advice
“JUST RELAX. BREATHE. LET THE tide go out in your mind.” — Me just now to the companion animal, who insisted I post it.
HY”D Janusz Korczak – 1878.1942
TEACHING JEWISH KIDS THEIR HERITAGE was, to me, one of life’s greatest joys; I began doing it for pre-B’nei Mitzvah students (read: 11-12 year-olds) in 2000, retiring when I got sick in 2008. It was the high point of any…
One Nice Thing
IF YOU ARE AS SNARKED-OUT as I am, sick and tired of the recreational character assassination which passes for modern culture, please: 1.) Click on the “Comments” link below. 2.) Add either something nice someone did for you, or something…
One Day In 2010, With Feeling
STAN CLARK IS ON FACEBOOK. That means different things to different people, and nothing at all to those who don’t know that he’s Ann’s dad, a World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor who, along with his young sweetheart…
Pithyism #13
A FUNERAL IS A GROUP of people standing around talking about someone they’d rather be talking to.
Sometimes I Hate This Job
I’M PUTTING OFF WRITING A eulogy. Doesn’t everyone? Linda Tomback is a good friend who used to attend our Saturday morning Torah study. Her death is the eighth in our congregation in the past two years; the first two were…
Letter To A Dead Friend
Dear Sputnik, The attached photo of you arrived from a mutual friend two days ago, on what should have been your 48th birthday. I say “should” because it’s a primate conceit that the world be arranged according to our convenience.…