My baby is in finals this week. She is a senior and is a few days away from a much needed break before she starts her final spring …
I Fought The Angel Of Death
It is two days since we said goodbye to my furriest child. It came a little more than two weeks after I took him to the vet to see …
Death Didn’t Seem Painful Part 2
It's a month since I was released from the hospital and a little more than a month since the paramedics wheeled me out. If the …
The America We Knew Part 2
I don't know where to start with this post so I'll link to Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC orchestra on September 15, 2001 and …
Words Once Read But Seldom Heard
But every night I burn Every night I call your name Every night I burn Every night I fall again Every night I burn Scream the …
The Silence Is Deafening
The first seder of Pesach 2025 has come and gone but the silence that accompanies it has been loud. It started like the sound of a …
When Your Father’s Ghost Visits You
It's thirty-one years since my Uncle Mark died and almost seven since his older brother, my father died. Their father, my grandpa …
Would I Really Let You Break My Heart Again
We were at the beach the last time I saw the rabbi, or so I recall. We knew each other from blogging but not well and we had very …
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Did You Choose This Life Or Did It Choose You?
And we start with Simon & Garfunkel singing Bookends while I silently sing along inside my head. "Time it was, and what a …
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Do You Wish To Dance With Death?
I posted a picture of me dressed in my oh so fashionable hospital gown on Instagram and got a handful of questions and a couple of …