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Am Yisrael is supposed to place the yoke of the commandments upon ourselves. Our lives are not supposed to be centered around self-gratification; our...
Sometimes, it’s important to be able to adjust one’s direction. In intrapersonal and in interpersonal communication, this proficiency is...
Years ago, when Missy Older, Older Dude, Missy Younger, and Younger Dude were children, rather than parents of their own children, and lived with...
Computer Cowboy’s and my minhag is to welcome each of my book’s releases with dinner out. Recently, BH, two new books, a poetry collection,...
Life’s passages are not simply populated by kaleidoscopes or wild, one-horned, kosher beasts. Whereas last week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, references the...
My early academic life found me presenting conference papers, publishing findings in journals, lecturing, and coming to terms with an unsatisfactory...
Some of my local, academic encounters were laughable. At the time, though, I neither chortled nor guffawed as I needed income and had yet to...
Another academic kerfuffle that I experienced, here, was a dean asking me to water down the curriculum of a creative writing course because some...
Across the street from my parents’ home, a neighbor had carved out a portion of her lawn for a small garden. Within that square grew a variety of...
Years ago, when my family was blessed to make aliyah, I focused primarily on my children and only secondarily on teaching (focusing my energies on...
Our days, expectedly, are filled with expressions about the places from whence we’ve come and to where we’re heading. These countenances,...
I feel old, but my friends are older. Bli ayin hara, I’m in my sixties while some of my buddies are in their seventies or eighties. On balance,...
The morality of meaning influences our self-perception since we embrace ideas that are supported by our beliefs about ourselves and community. If, for...
When I became ten, as was customary for children in my neighborhood, I had a party. Typical food was served and standard games were played. My guests...
Things change. Our bodies morph as we go through life. In our end chapters, often those differences include disabilities plus altered fat/muscle...
Granny does it. Of course she does! By the same token, she eats, sleeps, uses the bathroom, and exists in many of the same ways as do members of...