Category Archives: Personal

I have my needs too but they’re specific. Female need seems so diffuse. You can’t get your hands on it. When you think she just wants a Slurpee, you find out she really needs all sorts of things you can’t … Continue reading →

Mark Kramer got in touch with me after I was interviewed by the Village Voice in 1999. For the next year or so, he was a regular contributor to my website. I’d pay him about $30 a story. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

I write frequently about social status — I feel keenly that I don’t have enough — and people keep asking me what I mean by “social status”. America is supposedly a classless society. What do I mean by terms like … Continue reading →

Late one Friday afternoon in June 1988, I was 22, I picked up Student of the Year awards in Communications and Political Science (shared) at Sierra Community College. A couple of hundred people showed up, including my step-mom. My teachers … Continue reading →

With the exception of my best friend, the Lakewood Rav, my favorite poster in Torah Talks over the past two years has been “Garden Fun.” From her sensitive perceptive remarks and thoughtful little gifts, I could tell she was a … Continue reading →