On Rosh Hashanah, I spoke about how the Jewish wisdom I’d gleaned from Hilary’s Yom Kippur readings over the years helped me manage my challenging relationship with my father, enabling me to forgive him – … Read More
To Forgive Is Not to Forget But to Remember Differently
It’s been a hell of a year since we last met, and I mean that literally. As if the global issues I mentioned earlier weren’t overwhelming enough, I know many here have been challenged personally. So … Read More
Want to be as good as your dog thinks you are?
Because the Jewish High Holidays remind us of mortality, I’ve been thinking about our 14 ½ year old puppy, Leo. Yes, he’s at the end of his life expectancy, but his ever-wagging tail is evidence that … Read More
For our unforgiving age, advice from an unassuming sage
Inspired by a good joke and a stirring play, I offer these remarks, including a rather unorthodox ending: A young man is hitchhiking and gets picked up by a trucker. After thanking him profusely, the young … Read More
Life Lessons From a Jewish Mother Joke
“Everyone has two lives,” Hunter Thompson famously said. “The second one begins when you realize you only have one.” That’s the moral of Alfred Nobel, whose obituary was mistakenly published, memorializing him as the inventor … Read More
Reflections Of a COVID-19 Sufferer
As the world reels from the spread of a COVID-19, are we fixated on a false choice — either pandemic or another Great Depression? Can we avert BOTH human and economic disaster? After all, we … Read More
This Too Shall Pass(over) Applied to COVID-19
Jews have an interesting leitmotif running through the Passover Seder, conveying its meaning while telling a story that explains the longevity of the Jewish People, and a lesson for all humanity – particularly as the … Read More
How Do You Measure A Life?
Thank God for dirty jokes, especially the two my mom insisted I tell anyone willing to listen as I motored her through a storm of diagnosis and decision-making last month. Distracting us from the stress … Read More
Joan Rivers’ Life Lessons — Can We Talk?
God knows Joan Rivers had much to atone for every Yom Kippur, considering her trenchant wit, off-color jokes, and celebrity takedowns—though sidesplitting. Never deferential to fame and status, Rivers claimed, “I succeeded by saying what … Read More
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