My father has been dead for twenty-five years. I have now spent considerably more of my life without him than I ever spent with him. I have ...

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Tonight is a special Shabbat—the Sabbath between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) also known as the...

There are landscapes so beautiful they are said to render a person speechless. Exhibit A:    The Isle of Skye: Showing off.  Unfortunatel...

If I were sane, or, even merely a betting man , I would guess almost nothing .    Surely it is not the unemployment , which is frequent.   N...

I've been thinking a lot about my voice lately.    For a long time on this blog, I felt a silence come over me. It was shame. I was so t...

There are some roles you play, and there are some roles that play you back.   Désirée Armfeldt, I have discovered, belongs firmly in the sec...