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Category Archives: Personal
Working Through The Resentment
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been returning again and again to the Fourth of the Twelve Steps (“making a complete and fearless moral inventory”). A key part of this step is the resentment list. You write out the people … Continue reading
Mormons vs Seventh-Day Adventists
Yesterday, I wrote about the great joy I felt hearing for the first time at age 12 the forbidden pop melody “Sing a Song” by the Carpenters. Pop music was a sin in my Adventist upbringing, in my home anyway. … Continue reading
What Makes It Easier Or Harder To Date Someone?
My first test for dating is my intuitive level of comfort with someone. When I’m comfortable, it’s easier for me to be honest, and for her to be honest, and everything just works easier that way. I usually feel quick … Continue reading
Jewish Masochism
I did not knowingly meet an identifying Jew until I arrived at UCLA at age 22 but I read a lot about Jews and much of it mystified me. In particular, why were so many things identified as Jewish that … Continue reading
What Does It Mean To Follow God’s Will?
If God is God and created the universe, He is very different from me. So following His will means I can’t just do what I want. Following God’s will means that I have to pause before making a decision to … Continue reading
Where’s The Cruelty?
A friend emails: I am sorry to hear that your plantar has taken so long to get rid of. I found that in addition to the physical therapy, that massaging the area and really working in magnesium oil, seemed to … Continue reading
A Little Boy Shaking His Fist
A woman told me: “When I hear your reading and I hear what you have to say and how you relate the incidents, I get this image of a little boy standing, looking up, and shaking his fist at everything … Continue reading
Sacramento’s Mosaic Law Congregation
By the end of 1989, I determined to convert to Judaism, but I was not sure which denomination to choose. My hero Dennis Prager was non-denominational. He went to all types of synagogues. I decided to be like that. As … Continue reading
My First Pop Song
One day in 1978, I think, when I was about 12, I was in the living room of our apartment at Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley and the radio was on and across the airwaves came Sing a … Continue reading
The I-5 To Freedom
There are few things I love more than hitting the open road. The prospect of a long drive without any obligation fills me with joy. This is change I can believe in! Soon after I arrived in California in 1977, … Continue reading