Continue Reading Like Clockwork Feeling like the weight of time rests on your shoulders, buckling your knees in these unsettling days after we had to reset…
Continue Reading Hoping for Grace In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind On cold eveningsmy grandmother,with ownership of half her mind-the other half having flown back to…
Continue Reading Hybridizing Thoughts 1. Stop here and now with the fall clean-up of your garden, should you be lucky to have one. Leaf blankets, flower…
Continue Reading Pick one! Last week my brain and I were not on the best of terms. After negotiations, vague promises ensued that it will be…
Continue Reading Pig in a Poke The idiom “Pig in a Poke” refers to a person making a purchase sight unseen and getting something inferior to expectations. It’s…
Continue Reading Field Trip How much beauty can you compress into a single day? Inordinate amounts, it turns out. It helps, of course, if you live in…
Continue Reading Resistance – Maybe Later? Igor Levit, a gifted pianist of Russian Jewish descent who lives, works and engages politically in Germany made me half laugh half…
Continue Reading Registered yet? Given the marathon of two in-depth reviews last week I think I’ve used up (almost) all my words for October… let’s just…
Continue Reading Die Plage (The Plague) Harley Gaber at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education In memory of Alice Meyer (z”l) who fought the rising dark forces to the end. Tiresias:” You mock my blindness? Let me tell…
Continue Reading Wooden Splendor Walk with me. It’ll transport you into a world of wonder, visions of fairy tales where gnomes and goblins, witches and wolves…
