This one gets a little disturbing. Just so you know what to expect when you read it over lunch.
Let’s talk about courage. There’s lots of kinds of courage, ways…
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I got to work last Monday morning after a day off for Rosh Hashona and found my boss and the secretary gathered in my cube - an inauspicious start to the the New Year if ever I’ve seen one. …
I have all these fun notes for goofy things to blog about but it’s late (as I type this up) and the day has been challenging. After a tasty supper of squash roasted in white wine and butter,…
Regular readers of this blog (yeah, both of ya) probably know by now that I am not good at bucking trends. If everybody is doing it, I’m likely to scam my way on the bandwagon - probably,…
They built a tent on the bima (or pulpit) out of metal tubing covered with gauze and bright carpets. Inside, there was one chair, four soft old floor pillows, and a sefer torah scroll - a torah…
In my life there are a few moments I expect never to stop regretting. They’re mainly to do with things I shouldn’t have said or done, but the ones that bother me the most are mostly…
Time is short and the day will be long, with a trip to the vet, the start of bargaining, some mission-critical phone calls (business and pleasure), and the second of my three voice-acting classes tonight. …
It’s not that it snuck up on me, I’ve been watching that pumpkin pie on the horizon getting bigger and closer every day with slavering anticipation. But this past few days at work…
I guess the first thing I need to make clear is that I am not in charge. Of anything. Okay, sometimes Kel lets me hold the remote when I’m tubing out, but I’m only allowed to…
Let’s talk about the big stuff: Morality. Patriotism. Paternalism. Nipples. Oops, you didn’t hear that from me.
The U.S. of A. just celebrated its own unique…
From last Thursday night:
We painted the ceiling. It would be fair to say that we just painted the ceiling - not only becaused it just now happened, but after all, it’s…
Kel came home from the Asian agog about their archaeology exhibit. The museum had mounted a fascinating pair of shows of classical and modern Korean art,…
Triredeteamed. That’s a tough one, eh? But we can take it on one piece at a time and make sense out of it. You already know how. Come on:
Me and my crew do up a big ol’ Passover ("Pesach") service ("seder") every year. I really get into it, and my friends enable this in me by letting me run the seder with the help of my enormous…
Help me out, will ya, peoples? I don’t understand the title of the PDB. That’s not a peanut-dutter bangwich, you know - it’s the presidental daily briefing. On August…
It was one of those moments when I actually expanded my mentality - figured out how to use my brain in two or three directions at once, a sort of personal intellectual watershed. I remember it…
Yesterday I posted the story of me and a young friend, and a lesson learned. I promised to give you another story about that kid today, and another personal growth experience. This time,…
(Caveat: You know, I hope, that this isn’t about you. I mean, except for the part where I say how cool you are.)
I find new sites all the time that are witter and more current,…
It’s been a rough 12 hours or so. It was around 9 pm last night that we realized that the dog was injured, and around 11 when I set up a pallet on the floor so I could hold his paw in my…
Today is the one-month horizon. The condos are all lined up, the tickets have been purchased, the rental cars have been arranged - a jeep to start, for the rough roads and the mountain…
I sat wondering what to post for July 4, the day we celebrate the signing in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence, and it occurred to me that I’d written something about another date I wanted…
The hardest part is not knowing. I can make tough decisions if I have all the information. I’ve endured pain; I’ve caused it, too. I can live in complex, compromised twilight…
Thanks for sticking around today; I’ve been way too busy to do much writing but I’ve had lots of interesting ideas which I’ll be exploring in upcoming days through a combination of modern…
Thinking back:
We had taken Cosmo to the superspecial clinic to get his stifle (that’s vet-talk for “knee") flushed. We were in the waiting room when one of Kelly’s…
I’m going to give myself a nice running start at this fine new Tuesday by disgorging an old scrawling that I’ve held onto for nigh these many years. I was reminded of it by a few harsh…
The meeting went great, thanks for asking. Today I’m back to a full day of desk-jockey joy, but with a fresh new perspective I can only attribute to the fourth consecutive day of Karma week…
I’m a little tired of all the karma I’ve been spouting off about this week, and there’s a bunch of entertaining little notions floating around in my brain that would be fun to write…
Yesterday, barely a week in advance, I made reservations for Rosh Hashona services. “Reservations.” What a provocative word. It’s weird…
It’s the new year, folks, and I’m full of the spirit. Which spirit in particular that may be, I’m not at liberty to say, but it’s not the Easy Spirit wherewith nuns play…
I guess it did take a whiz, and that ain’t me. Pea nailed it, and I have only myself and my sieve-like memory to blame. I could say that the coding changes I failed to make were down…