April 15, 2013

Monday Book Nook: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

I didn’t intend to pull out another Barbara Kingsolver book so soon, but dreamer Debbie saw I had finished Flight Behavior and offered to do an […]
November 26, 2012

A PS to the Thanksgiving Post

In a Thanksgiving-themed post (A Thanksgiving Thought – Gratitude is Being Present on 11.21.12) I bemoaned the consumer-driven rush to collapse all fall holidays into one […]
November 21, 2012

A Thanksgiving Thought – Gratitude is Being Present

I live in America. I say that just to orient everyone to the topic of this blog. The weekend before Halloween I promised to take my […]
June 8, 2012

Full, or Sated?

Can we be sated without being full? A distinguishing aspect of Judaism is the rules and practices that have an influence on all aspects of life […]
February 1, 2012

Shhhh… The Importance of Silence

The Jews are known for asking a lot of questions. In fact, it is said that Einstein’s mother didn’t ever ask her son if he learned […]
October 24, 2011

Begin Again: A Lesson from the High HolyDays

The Jewish High HolyDays have wrapped. They started with the New Year, Rosh Hashanah, followed by Yom Kippur, the Atoning. They concluded with the festival of […]