To My Dearest Soul Brothers, This is a very hard letter to write. But, here we are- in Tiferet sh’b’Yesod....
Meiselman: the Lean Years is an irreverent Bildungsroman centered around the neurotic life of a librarian.
Tending to my demons in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Dazed from too much coffee in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Inevitable assimilation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Seeking validation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Slowly learning to cope in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Anxious all weekend in the Rebbe’s empty chair.Burning all bridges in the Rebbe’s...
Story of Esther Vashti / We Gaze & We OwnWe own the rights to herbut she will not show. She...
Driving a cool eighty-five-miles-per-hour on the rural Arkansas freeway, it felt like the migrating birds overhead were escorting me. I kept thinking of Ken Miles in Ford v Ferrari saying to his son, Peter: “You’re moving fast. But as the car speeds up everything else slows down. You see everything.”...
I bless my morning coffee and the trick is, don’t think about the coffee.
enough with miracles,enough with celebrations of finding that final limitlessjar of oil we tiptoe through the polluted wilderness on day...
I was in my teens when the visits to Stanetsky’s Funeral Home became routine. It began with my four grandparents. I don’t remember the order in which they died and couldn’t tell you the difference between one funeral or the other. But I remember the doors of the family room...
All her adult life she had journeyed with him. They had a dependable home and a beautiful garden. They raised...