October. Portland. Bedtime. Annie’s room. 2018 “But I shouldn’t be in that group,” my daughter wailed over and over again. Annie was put in remedial fourth-grade math at the start of the school year. She hadn’t learned her times tables. Her teacher explained that Annie could fill out the 10×10 times table like a champ. […]
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God is not an ass. (Love as much as you can.) In the mail the other day, I got a scary brochure entitled “Revelation Today: The End Time Is Near.” Apparently, the Reverend Myckal Morehouse has an important message for me. He was prepared to provide free admission, free parking, free childcare, and free study
Don’t fear the vacuum of time and energy you will free up. Stop being complicit with hatred. Jedi-like Patience. In less than 20-minutes over five days. Srsly. It works. And it’s guaranteed. I started with the “no thank you card.” Just by having it, I need it less. I go into situations mindful that patience may be
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Soul Recently a neighbor came up to me and said,: “A Jewish friend told me Judaism doesn’t believe in a soul and that when you are dead you are dead. Can you help?” I thought I would share my answer. The first 3/4 of this article is a bit academic. The last section is
Humanity Our world seems mad, frightening. Out of alignment. Brexit, windmill cancer, Mueller, global warming, and more. I get really scared. I'm sure you do too. You'd have to be especially disconnected to not feel the fear. And, there's something we can do about it. Hope OK, ok, ok, I kind of want
The 77% Weekly Newsletter SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT DELIVERED FRESH TO YOUR INBOX 40/52 WEEKS A YEAR. FREE. Anxious Two weeks ago, at 3:30 in the morning on a Thursday, I felt the beginning of a panic attack. And then it built on itself, as these things do. I awoke, short of breath, sweating, my mind
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Outside perspective I’m in the kitchen. I feel like the mythological Sisyphus, but my daily task is emptying and reloading the dishwasher. Jane is away. Annie and a friend are within earshot, in the dining room; having settled on a card game, they are starting to play. I hear my daughter getting confused as her
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Something to do: love. Fear paralyzes us. We feel inconsequential to affect the world. We get overwhelmed. We freeze. I am familiar with this too. But, I know something: You and I can change the world. Let us be delighted on Thursday knowing that we have done that which we knew
Mourning. Memories. Blessings. Aaron Panken was the rabbi at my home synagogue when I graduated from Tufts University. He jumped me through the hoops necessary to get into rabbinical school. He died. Suddenly, in a plane crash. I am shaken, thrown off. Confused. When I first heard the news, I observed myself. Numb. In shock.
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“Have To” Like This Story Maggie and I were having coffee in the bakery that used to be the library of Northeast Portland – the neighborhood in which birthed Ramona and the pantheon of Beverly Cleary’s characters. Maybe pantheon is too strong of a word. Maggie is ROTB’s volunteer publicist. The monthly cup of coffee
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