by Rabbi Brian | Mar 3, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Fresh Fish Sold Here Today I remember a magician in the 1980’s unfurling and holding up a paper banner with the words “Fresh fish sold here today” printed on it. The magician would say, “I find this phrase a touch redundant. Fresh? Of course it’s...
by Rabbi Brian | Mar 1, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Laughing at as many incongruities as possible It’s a Tuesday night. We just had tacos. We do Taco Tuesdays probably more than two weeks a month, if we kept track of it. But it could be any night other than Tuesdays. Because we aren’t that...
by Rabbi Brian | Feb 12, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Dad and I went on our third father-son road trip in 2002. This one was in a rented RV. We leave LA, drive east, pass Palm Springs, and go south to Niland, by the shore of the Salton Sea—a huge unswimmable lake of salt, rotting fish corpses, and runoff...
by Rabbi Brian | Feb 4, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL My friend Michelle sits four feet feet away from the stainless-steel fire pit in my backyard. I’m on the other side, also four feet away. We are having a small, Covid-safe inauguration celebration. We are drinking G & Ts with Hendricks, a fancy...
by Rabbi Brian | Jan 20, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL Opt in While it’s not the rousing fun of a kids’ game of hide-and-seek or even a word search, I enjoy the game of looking for the unsubscribe button at the bottom of automated emails. I decided that I don’t need to know about all of the sales from my...
by Rabbi Brian | Jan 15, 2021 | 77% Weekly
SHARE VIA EMAIL *A Few Chess Lessons* The dogs and I are on our evening walk. It’s a longer than usual as my friend Carmel and I are chatting via my wireless headset about the chess lessons we took in New York City in the early 1980s. It’s raining hard, but I’ve lived...
