As always, I think about Mark today. No wait, that's a lie. For the past few years November 8th has snuck up on me. A vague feeling of unease, a feeling that I was forgetting something, maybe someone's birthday? Maybe a test at school, a project that was due? I spend...
Last week, I waited in line for an hour and a half to vote. Normally, I vote on Election Day. Voting early lacks drama and excitement to me. On Election Day, I go to my local senior citizen center. Even though it's short, there's usually someone in line I know. We...
Childhood I am six, or maybe seven. We move to a new house and the house next door is a perfect match for ours, right down to the two girls the same age as my sister and I. The main difference is that their house is missing an added sunroom and at their house, the...
Yom Kippur is "The Day of Atonement," the day of saying you're sorry. The whole week leading up to Yom Kippur we're supposed to apologize to people we've wronged. In Jewish thought, God can't forgive you for things you do to other people, only they can do that. On Yom...
If you are in your 50s in the age of Facebook you can probably sort the names of people you went to high school with into four categories. There are your friends, the ones you still talk to and know, the ones who hold all your secrets. A few years ago, one of my best...
When he's bored with his own phone, my 14-year-old son likes to pick up my phone and go through the photos. My phone is 5 years old, so over a third of his life is stored in it. "You take a lot of random pictures," he said to me the other day. He's right, I do. I know...