Influences and Reminiscences
“All these places had their moments/With lovers and friends I still can recall/Some are dead and some are living/In my life I've loved them all.” (with gratitude to Lennon and McCartney)

Faith and Foibles
As much as God does not want us to trivialize the religious calling, I firmly believe that S/He likewise does not want us to die of terminal seriousness. Someplace between the two we grasp at issues of faith, sometimes to exalt them, sometimes to desecrate them and sometimes just to make them look silly.

What am I Doing Here?
I am an urban-Jewish-Yankee-liberal-pacifist who has wound up living in an arcane corner of America where the amalgam of fundamentalist Protestantism and reactionary social and political mores dominate the civic agenda. How can someone who is “in” someplace be so entirely “out of it”?

What We Eat
If we Jews “are what we eat,” we may die of indigestion, but at least we’ll have laughed our way through every mono/di/triglyceride-oozing kugel and knish.

Lessons in Jewish Law, Ethics, Customs
Things that I have learned and taught along the way on an eclectic mix of Jewish legal, ethical and social practices – their origins, applications and implications.

Musing Friends
Incredibly intelligent, insightful offerings from friends who deeply touch my life, mostly things that I wish I had written first.

Recipes from My Musing Friends