Neal @ January 26, 2010 # One Comment
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. Were that the case, I’d likely be talking to you now, and about something differently [...]
Neal @ January 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Kicking a whale up a beach
Braiding grape jelly
Comforting the chronically afflicted.
(1/22/09 P.S. to RW: who asked “Why would you kick a whale?” The only reason I can think of is that 1) he’s down, and 2) you’re that sort of fellow.)
Neal @ November 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
IF THE PERSON AHEAD OF you in the checkout line is stocking up on Meow Mix, don’t ask about their cat.
Neal @ June 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
TODAY IS THE WORST DAY (or one of the worst days) in any given year: it’s the last day I’ll be teaching religious school until September, which means I won’t see “my kids” until then — and I’ll be slightly stupider without someone questioning my basic Jewish assumptions every couple of weeks.
I don’t know what [...]
Neal @ July 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
“But the Eagle has landed; tell your children whenTime won’t drive us down to dust again.”– Leslie Fish, Hope Eyrie
One of the most embarrassing things which ever happened to me was falling asleep for the 90 or so seconds surrounding one small step.
I was seven years old and living in middle-class Matawan, New Jersey. A [...]
