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Category Archives: Personal
Flowers For Shabbos!
On the Friday before Shuvuot, I went to Elat Market to buy grapes and parsley and there was this adorable single young woman outside hawking “flowers for Shabbos.” She was so cute and so tznious (modest) at the same time! … Continue reading
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What Is My Primary Mission In Life?
For most of the time since I was eight years old, I’ve felt like my primary mission in life was to write. I started blogging in 1997 and started weekly psycho-therapy in 1998. All of my therapists have seen vast … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, keen observations, orthodox jew, psycho therapy, public writings
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All Defects Of Character
Alcoholic Anonymous started 72 years ago yesterday. Step Six of the Twelve Steps is: “We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” I’ve not been able to surrender to this step yet. I have too many … Continue reading
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Tagged 72 years, countless times, hole in my soul, m 46, misbehavior, train wreck
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Living Out A Chaim Potok Novel
When I was 14 and 15 (1980-1981), my family and I read all (or almost all) of Chaim Potok‘s novels about Judaism. They reminded us of what dad had gone through with the legalistic — in our view — Seventh-Day … Continue reading
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Tagged chaim potok, chaim potok novel, Dennis Prager, Don Etra, dustin hoffman, george bush at yale, henry waxman, jeremy kagan
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Blogging As Self-Defense
One reason I loved coming to California in 1977 was that there was no corporal punishment in the schools. In Australia, I got hit regularly. Teachers would smack my hand with a ruler when I was bad. Sometimes the ruler … Continue reading
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