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 ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of my father, Michael Silber. I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with feelings about it. Sometimes this...

Jake. Gone too soon. - Our beautiful ginger cat (who came to mom and I after Papa died), Jake. He was "The Man" of the family ...

- That I could play any instrument with extraordinary virtuosity - That I had said “that thing” to “that person” before it was too late - Th...

At the JCC of West Bloomfield, MI - where it all began 1. How would you urge the reader to learn to approach life as you do, in relishin...

My previous post about [the Real] Rabbi Syme generated a wonderful internet "moment—" one of those lightning-in-a-bottle experien...

     In 6th grade when asked by our middle school music teacher to bring in a CD of our favorite music, everyone else brought in Ace of Ba...

    As many of you out there are reading After Anatevka , you might be surprised to know that one of the leading questions I get is whether ...

Dorothy, girl: DELEGATE!! 26.  Delegate. When it comes to tackling big projects, you can try to do everything yourself and have an aneu...

Moscow, September 1910 That night, she dreamed. Lying next to a fitful Maxim, she became aware of the unmistakable briny smell of the ...

Sometimes in life, an experience is every single thing you hope and dream and pray it will be. This was one of those.

Whenever I meet new people the question “ How did you end up in the UK? ” is almost always at the top of the list—and the answer, of course,...

ANTIGONE . [ An aperture in ]  …I’m tired, Father. OEDIPUS . [ Beat .] When you were born, you were hard on your mother.     you came in ...

There are some things we just cannot explain. It was now late October, and (despite the slow passing of each unbearable day), unseasonabl...