Aging
The Broccoli Gene
My daughter, who is now twenty-two years old and a strict vegetarian, wanted to know if her dislike of ‘cruciferous vegetables’[1] was just her being a baby or if there…
Beer/Bestie/Banish Episode 2 –Sheri T. Joseph
Here’s Episode 2 of Beer/Bestie/Banish in which I interview author Sheri T. Joseph about which of her characters in Edge of the Known World she’d most want to have a beer…
This is my Brain over Fifty
Ever since I hit my fifties, I’ve turned into a different person. Even my hair has changed—it was pin straight for five decades, and now it’s curly. What the absolute…
Guilt as a Motivational Tool
I was trying to explain Jewish guilt to a friend who didn’t grow up around Jewish people. She understood guilt as a concept, but couldn’t understand why I’d embrace it…
Koala Brains
I recently learned that Koalas have brains that look like a boneless, skinless chicken breast. This is not like a regular mammilian brain, which is all folded in on itself…
Of Trolls and Toddlers
If you feed trolls, they get big and fat and juicy. Their favorite food is attention. Yes, yes, I know, they’re objectively wrong. They lie. They traffic in absolute misinformation.…
Tea Time in America
The English have tea time. The Spanish have their siestas. What do Americans have? Overtime. The older I get, the more I think that’s a whole bunch of hooey. We…
Digital Detox from Corporate Babble
Being big on the concept of ‘shop local’, I went into a local business while on vacation recently. While there, I saw a sign near the cash register. I shall…
‘Tis the Season
‘Tis the season to be jolly, so they say. And if you look around, on every street corner there are twinkly lights, candy canes, Christmas trees, snowmen, snowflakes, and all…
First, Do No Harm
“Boring!” That was one of the nicer comments. I’m trying, in my imperfect way, to market my novel(s).[1] So I posted a video of myself reading a page of it.…
