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Category Archives: Personal
The Thrill Of Gambling
In ninth grade, as an outgrowth of my fascination with sports, I learned the thrill of gambling. I learned that if you put a few dollars on a game, it immediately assumed great importance in your life. It filled you … Continue reading
Heavy Petting
Do Jews talk about heavy petting? That was an obsession in my Christian childhood, how very wrong it was. Then I left the church at 18 and I never heard anything more about heavy petting. Are children these days sufficiently … Continue reading
What If Rainy Walked Into Starbucks?
I had a solid morning of writing. Now I need some human connection. I’ll get some mint tea, veinte, for $2.45 and sit in the corner by myself and write. I got a couple of hours of good sleep with … Continue reading
I Don’t Have A Problem That Can’t Be Solved With The Right Connections
When I was lost in the desert of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the early ’90s, I developed this conviction that if I stayed where I was (living with my parents), I would never get well. I had to connect with … Continue reading
My GF Threw A Sticky Gob Of Peanut Butter At Me!
I normally fall for women who appear to have their lives more together than I do. I fall for doctors and lawyers and executives. I’m attracted to women with my father’s traits of iron will, determination, education, success, strength, juggling … Continue reading
The Road To Wellville
This might be the best novel and movie about growing up in my home. My dad is a big health reformer and I’m a big rebel, just like the character George in the story who keeps saying to his dad, … Continue reading
I Have Almost No Christmas Memories
It was not until I was 23 that I started thinking about converting to Judaism. I was sick that December of 1989 and living with my brother in Tannum Sands. I decided that month to become Jewish. That was the … Continue reading
Blind-Sided By Love
I moved to America with my parents in May of 1977 (to Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley). One day that summer in the college pool, I was introduced to several of my future classmates including Sam*. Feeling anxious, … Continue reading
What Keeps Me Orthodox
I moved to Los Angeles in March of 1994 and started going regularly to Aish Ha Torah (on Pico Blvd and Doheny Blvd). I quickly met people I admired such as Richard Horowitz, Rabbi Nachum Braverman, Sam Glaser, David Sacks, … Continue reading
My Uncle Val Is Dead
My uncle Val (my dad’s older brother) has died at age 87, the same age his parents died (I lived in Australia then in 1984-1985 with my brother). My dad and his brother had an awful upbringing with a selfish … Continue reading