Reflections on Aging
Dance of the Shiva Queen
The 7:06am call was not unexpected and I knew what it was about before I even picked up the phone. I had been up since 5:30am and already did two loads of wash, ran the [Read more…]
mourning
Baby Boomer Bubbe
How Do You Eat an Elephant? Or: How Do You Measure Your Pain?
On a scale of 1-10, how do you measure the gut wrenching pain that, at one time or another, we all feel? Is it measurable? Is it time limited? Do you cry? Do you sit [Read more…]
Care-Giving Concerns
The World Shrinks
There are certain “set pieces,” or repetitive scripts that become a part of every Rabbi’s life. This comes under the heading of REALLY telling tales out of school. Each of us clergy-people brings a certain [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
Once again, the power of community
There are many clubs, so to speak, that we become part of during our lifetime. Channeling Groucho Marx, however, I just joined one that I had no desire to join. That is, as the literature [Read more…]