2022.10.DisappearingMoment
2022.10.DisappearingMoment You get to an age where you should only make recommendations about music to people who love you, and only if they ask. It happens...
2022.09.DisappearingMoment
Today falls in the midst of the Days of Awe: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the Days of Repentance that bridge them. It is a chance to make things right with...
2022.08.DisappearingMoment
August is birthday month in our household. About half of the family birthdays we celebrate occur in August. A new niece expanded our collection this month:...
2022.07.DisappearingMoment
I’ve been a lot more social over the past few weeks than I’ve been in several years. It started as I set up time with friends before the ALA Annual...
2022.06.DisappearingMoment
Calvin Trillin wrote that all families have a message. In Trillin’s family it was, “You might as well be a mensch.” For me, in my family, the message was,...
2022.05.DisappearingMoment
On Friday morning, May 5, I gave myself an antigen test and found out I had COVID-19. There should be a word for these confluences, when the thing you most...
2022.04.DisappearingMoment
(Adapted from a speech I gave at my mother’s 80th birthday on April 14, 2022) One of the best bits of advice I’ve ever read is something that a lot of people...
2022.03.DisappearingMoment
Years ago, there was a debate that divided my Reconstructionist congregation. Should we announce pets, along with the names of deceased family and friends,...
2022.02.DisappearingMoment
Every so often I run into a book or essay about how we would be happier if we stopped consuming social media and the news. The authors tend to looks like me....
2022.01.DisappearingMoment
“This is not advice,” Matt Levine will write before proffering tongue-in-cheek advice. “None of this is ever advice.” For Matt, a humorist disguised as a...