Fat Lady on a Bike

When I titled my last post ( Breaking the Cycle ), I was struck by the irony of those words juxtaposed with the picture of me on my bicycle....

This has been a remarkable winter and extremely challenging early spring, and I apologize for my long absence from this space.  I hope to wr...

On Sunday afternoon, we took Alex (age 7-1/2) and Emma (age almost 6) and their parents to see an amazing, in-the-round production of Peter ...

I am sitting in my sister's house.  We came down here to Fort Myers, FL for Thanksgiving, as we did last year, only this year I stayed o...

As I mentioned yesterday, this is a reflective time of year in the Jewish calendar, and I've certainly been in a reflective mood since m...

Last week we celebrated Rosh Hashono , the Jewish new year.  I've always thought that celebrating the new year at the same time, more or...

For the past few months I've been thinking a lot about support -- what it is, why we need it, why not having it is so painful.  One of t...

Today is Fathers' Day, and Facebook is full of warm and loving tributes to all kinds of fathers, both living and dead, as was the Sunday...

Tomorrow, I'm leaving to drive 1300+ 78rpm records out the the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they are going to be the centerpie...

Yesterday was amazing, meteorologically.  I was awakened in the morning by a tremendous clap of thunder, and my bedtime was delayed by one o...

You may have noticed that I haven't been writing much of late.  I've noticed that, too.  As I've thought about why that is, I re...