Just in case you missed it on Twitter or Facebook, tomorrow (March 20th) has been declared the National Day of Unplugging by Reboot, a “a growing network of thought-leaders and tastemakers who...
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Stressing re: Cross-Dressing
“Please: Do *not* send pix. Really.” It’s been about a week since Purim, but I am still thinking about my broad shouldered and hairy (male) neighbors who, although upstanding...
Big in J.A.P.an
(Cross-posted at my blog) (…Tx for teaching me protocol, V.) Travel literature (or film), when boiled down to its essence, is almost always about some combination of the 3E’s: Escape...
On J.A.P.s, Journeys, Maccabees, and Cable TV
I just finished reading a great and entertaining memoir by Lisa Fineberg Cook, a self-aware, spoiled, very smart and funny Jewish girl from LA who marries a world-traveling educator / adventurer...
Suburbadox Paradox: Something Larger, Tiny Place
Months ago, I e-mailed a friend (let’s call him Earl) about who-remembers-what. Earl is also a writer, and in addition, works in photography, film, and music. He is waiting for his Big Break...
In the Beginning…There was Fall.
Now the year gets serious. And stays that way for about 5 months. In Israel, The Day After Sukkot, until about Purim, is the window during which things – if they are going to get done at all –...
To Do (Tomorrow): Have a Happy New Year
The New Year’s wishes fill my inbox and the apple crumble is cooling, but I’m not that ready, and I’m not that into it. A time for introspection, repentance, and resolutions? A day...
Summer Prayer of a Hebrew Redneck Wannabe
Every summer, right in the hot, soft belly of July/August, I’m hit with it in the head, like the skillet of an angry housewife: the urge to play Alan Jackson loud with the windows of my minivan...