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Category Archives: Personal
Preparing For Tough Times
“You’re doing three smart things,” a secular Jew told me this week. “You’ve joined a tight community (Orthodox Judaism) where people help each other. You’ve learned a skill (teaching Alexander Technique) that you can make money from anywhere. And you’ve … Continue reading
Steve Jobs Was 56
The chairman of Apple computers is dead. I think I first encountered a personal computer around 1981 at the Albion Field Station, a Seventh-Day Adventist retreat in Mendocino County affiliated with Pacific Union College. The operator of the station had … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Internet, Personal
Tagged apple computers, auburn journal, gladstone observer, high school sports, placer high school, sierra community college, tannum sands
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Life Is Brand New!
I left my home of over 14 years Sunday. It was shattering. I felt sad and helpless. I felt tired and sweaty. My back hurt. I had great trepidation about the future. I drove a few blocks to crash in … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, funny email, hovel, looking at the sky, thinking about my life, yom kippur
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Do You Really Want To Become A Better Person?
I remembered how charged up I got about becoming a better person when I started listening to Dennis Prager on the radio in the fall of 1988. It’s been tough. My progress in this department has been spotty if at … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Ethics, Personal
Tagged 13 reasons, Dennis Prager, high holiday services, jewish new year, moral courage, new year sermon
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